330 TIPULID.E. 



luteous tinge at the base and in front, and with a short curved white 

 band adjoining the stigma, which is yellow ; veins testaceous. Halteres 

 testaceous. Abdomen with three brown stripes ; tip ferruginous. 

 Legs testaceous ; tarsi blackish, testaceous towards the base. 

 Rare. In the British Museum. (E.) 



30. vaga, n. Mas^attideflava, antennis nigris basi flavis, thoracis 

 disco nigro, alis subcinereis fascia furcata albida, abdomine testaceo 

 vitta dorsali nigro-cinerea segmentorum marginibus posticis flavis, pe- 

 dibus testaceis, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque nigris. Long. 6 ; 

 alar. 12 lin. 



Male. Pale yellow. Antennas black, setaceous, shorter than the 

 thorax, with very few and short hairs ; first and second joints yellow ; 

 first brown towards the tip. Disc of the thorax black. Wings slightly 

 greyish, with a whitish forked band by the small brown stigma ; fore 

 fork extending towards the tip of the wing ; hind fork passing through 

 the discal areolet nearly to the hind border of the wing ; veins brown, 

 simple in front of the discal areolet. Halteres with brown knobs. Ab- 

 domen testaceous, subobclavate, with a greyish-black dorsal stripe, 

 which widens from the base to the tip ; hind borders of the segments 

 pale yellow. Legs testaceous, rather long and slender ; tarsi and tips 

 of the femora and of the tibiae black. 



Very rare. In the collection of the Rev. L. Jenyns. (E.) 



31. annulicornis, Meig. Zw. vi. 289. 61 (1830). varicornis, 

 Schumm. Fulva, thoracis disco cinereo vittis quatuor fuscis,' alis sub- 

 fuscescentibus apud venas obscurioribus macula albida, abdomine fascia 

 subapicali nigra, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tarsisque apice nigris. Long. 

 5-6 ; alar. 10-12 lin. 



Tawny. Antennae with a black band at the base of the fourth 

 and of all the following joints. Disc of the thorax grey, with four 

 brown stripes. Wings very slightly tinged with pale brown ; some of 

 the veins clouded with darker brown ; a whitish diffuse spot behind the 

 stigma, which is brown. Halteres testaceous. Abdomen with a black 

 band near the tip. Legs pale tawny ; tips of the femora and tarsi 

 towards the tips black. 



Not common. (E. S. I.) 



All the following species of Tipula belong to the genus Pachy- 

 rhina of Meigen, which may be thus characterized : 



PACHYRHINA, Mcq. ; Stasg. ; Boss. (V.) ; Zett. D. S. Tipula p., L. ; 

 F. ; Gmel. ; Scop. ; Meig. ; Zett. I. L. ; Schumm. ; Gimm. 



Corpus magnum, elongatum, cyliudricum, glabriculum. Caput parvum, 

 rotundatura. Frons antice prominula. Oculi remoti. Proboscis 

 longiuscula, crassa, cylindrica, apice superne acuta. Palpi 4-articu- 

 lati, incurvi, subcylindrici ; articuli primus, secundus, et tertius sub- 

 rcquales; quartus longior et paullo angustior. Antenna) 13-articu- 



