new and lUtle-knoioa TipuliJse. 105 



romidisli, somewhat more convex below, apical joints not 

 much smaller than the basal ones; verticils about as long 

 as the joints. Thorax and abdomen uniformly shining black, 

 only the pleura3 slightly grey-dusted and the ovipositor 

 reddish. Legs black, the femora and tibiae brownish except 

 at tips. Wings slightly greyish, unmarked except for the 

 darker grey stigma. Sc ending distinctly in costa; Sc2 near 

 tip of Scj ; r about its own length from tip of E,i, and at 

 about mid-length of R2; ^2+3 very short; Ks rather long 

 and nearly straight ; the three veins closing the upper basal 

 cell rather thick and about equal in length ; cell M^ absent ; 

 cross-vein m very oblique, longer than basal section of M3. 

 Cuia before middle of discal cell. Halteres light yellow. 



Length of body about 5 mm. : wing 6 mm. 



FoHMosA : Fiiukiko, 23. ii. 1917 {T. Shiraki), 1 ? . 



Among described Oriental species this can only be com- 

 pared witii L. quartarius, Brun., which has a similar venation, 

 but is quite diti'erent in colour. 



TiPULIJSM. 



Ctengphokinm. 

 Psellwphora laneipes, sp. n. (PI. X. fig. 14.) 



Head orange, with black hair on the vertex, brownish to 

 golden hair on the face and rostrum. Palpi with the three 

 basal segments brownish, black-haired ; terminal segment 

 yellowish, black at the base and tip. Anteunpe with the 

 basal segment orange, with a dark brown stripe on the outer 

 side; remainder black, except for the tips of the flagellar 

 joints, which are light brownish. Thorax bright orange ; 

 prsescutum with three distinct black stripes, the middle one 

 entire, tlie lateral ones continued across the scutum. 

 Scutellum with rather long and dense brownish-orange hair. 

 Abdomen orange ; a narrow black median stripe on tergites 

 2-4), interrupted with orange on the posterior margins of 

 the segments, and. continuous with the narrow black lateral 

 posterior borders of these segments ; venter similar. 

 Hypopygium black. Ninth tergite with two rounded lobes, 

 each provided with a long dense tuft of dark brown hair 

 (much longer than in P. scalator, Alex ). Ninth sternite 

 much as in P. scalator (deeply bilobed, each lobe with a 

 strong smooth spine on its inner side). Eighth sternite 

 produced into a cup-shaped process similar to that of 

 P. scalator, but shorter. Outer clas])ers pointed, not square- 



