new and little-known Tipulide. 261 
follows :—Thorax not entirely velvet-black ; the preescutam 
with four blackish-grey stripes, separated by three equally 
broad stripes of the velvet-black ground-colour, the middle 
-pair of grey stripes reaching the front margin and attenuated 
behind at the suture; scutum and scutellum dull black 
without any velvety appearance. The orange colour of the 
abdomen is confined to the upper part of the first tergite, the 
whole of the second segment, the middle part of the third 
sternite, and narrow transverse bands at the bases of the third 
and fourth tergites. The ninth tergite is much smaller and 
less deeply emarginate, and the lobes of the ninth sternite 
(fig. 8) are much Jarger. Wingsand legsasin 7’. rufomedia. 
Length of body 14 mm.; wing 17°5 mm. 
Longurio rubriceps, sp.n. (Pl. XII. fig. 9.) 
Head dull red; antenne, palpi, labella, nasus, and sides 
and under surface of rostrum black. Rostrum very short, 
only about half as long as the head, nasus as long as the 
rostrum itself. Front rather swollen above the antenne. 
First antennal joint scarcely twice as long as broad ; second 
globular, a little broader than the first ; third about the size 
and shape of the second ; fourth and fifth nearly globular, 
diminishing in size; remainder slender and clothed with long 
hairs, the joints ill-defined. Thorax uniformly velvet-black, 
the mesonotum very much arched forwards-over the head. 
Abdomen: first segment velvet-black, with a reddish area 
near the tip ; second orange, narrowly black at the base and 
apex; third, fourth, and fifth orange, with a narrow black 
apical margin; sixth black, orange on the basal third ; 
seventh, eighth, and genitalia (fig. 9) velvet-black. Legs: 
coxe velvet-black ; trochanters dark brown; rest of legs 
yellowish brown, the tarsi and the tips of the tibie darker, 
Tibial spurs apparently absent; tarsi very long and slender, 
the first joint nearly twice as long as the tibize. Wings 
blackish brown; a small clear streak in the upper basal cell 
and another in the cell An. Stigma oval, rather darker than 
the ground-colour. Sc, present, but rather slender, nearly 
vertical. Rs nearly twice as long as the stigma, and a little 
longer than R.,3, which, in its turn, is just over twice as long 
as R,. Cell M, petiolate, a little longer than its petiole. 
Cu, in punctiform contact with M;. Halteres black. 
Length of body 17 mm.; wing 16 mm. ; hind femur 
11 mm. ; hind tibia 11 mm.; first hind tarsal joint 21 mm. ; 
remainder of hind tarsus 8 mm. 
The two previously described species of this genus are both 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Sex. 8. Vol. xviii. 18 
