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IX. — On Rome Tipulidie (Limouiinse) from Ceylon in the 

 British Museum Collection, with Descriptions of Eight new 

 Species. By F. W. Edwards, B.A. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The insects treated o£ in this paper were contained in three 

 collections made in Ceylon and presented by the collectors 

 to the British Museum : — 



(1) Mr. E. E. Green's collection, made between 1888 



and 1897. 



(2) Lt.-Col. J. W. Yerbury's collection, made in 



1890-92. 



(3) Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher's collection, made in 



1907-8. 



Only the insects belonging to the subfamily Limoniinae 

 {Tipnlida brevipafpi, O.-S., Limnubiidic, auctt.) are here 

 described. These all belong to widely distributed genera, 

 but many of the species are of considerable interest. The 

 occurrence of the genus Styringomyia in this region is 

 interesting; it seems to have a very wide range iu the tropics 

 of the Old World. 



Of the sixteen species represented in the three collections, 

 eight are here described as new, while of the remaining eight 

 only four {Eriocera crystalloptera, E. humberti and E. albo- 

 notata^ and Conosia irrorata) had previously been recorded 

 from Ceylon. The species of Eriocera, as has been noticed 

 before, vary to a rather remarkable extent, particularly iu 

 their neuratiou. 



1. Th7'ypiicomyia saltens, Dol. Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 

 xiv. p. 390, pi. ii. fig. 3 (1857) (as Lininobia).\ 



Syn. Dicra7wmiiia sultans, Ost.-Sack. lierl. eut. Zeit. 1882, p. 83. 



Although there are marked differences between this species 

 and T. aurijtennis in the ncuration, it is here referred with- 

 out any hesitation to the genus Thrypiicomyia. In the 

 structure of the antennje, and the shape of the wings and 

 abdomen, there is hardly any divergence ; these three 

 characters 1 regard as the essential ones of the genus. 



As the original description was rather short, aud in Dutch, 

 I ap|)cnd another : — 



Antentue 1 i-jointod, bnt tlic last joint constricted in the 

 middle, so that they appear almost as though they were 



