October, 1888.] 97 



LIST OF BEITISH TIPULIDM, &c. ("DADDY-LONGLEGS"), 

 WITH NOTES. 



BY G. H. VEBBALL, F.E.S. 



{Concluded from page 27). 



CTENOPHORA. 



1 (4) A small blackish-brown spot at the stigma, -which does not nearly reach the 



discal cell. 



2 (3) Abdomen black, with side markings yellow, or reddish-yellow with black 



dorsal spots pectinicornis, L. 



3 (2) Abdomen black with yellow bands .flaveolata, F. 



4 (1) A large brown blotch at the stigma, which extends to the discal cell... 



ornata, Mg. 



O. ornata, Mg. : in this Magazine (vol. xviii, p. 88) Mr. C. "W. 

 Dale recorded what he believed to be the second British specimen of 

 this handsome insect ; as a matter of fact, I believe it was the first 

 female taken in Britain, but I caught a male, also at Lyndhurst, on 

 June 30th, 1874, which is the only true Ctenojphora I have ever seen 

 alive. 



[Another dark coloured Amalopis with unspotted wings has been 

 given me by Baron Osten-Sacken, who caught it on the Pyrenees on 

 July 13th, 1887. I describe it shortly as follows : — 



A. pteenaica, n. sp. (<?). — Cinereo-brunnea, pedibus basi et alts fere totis 

 flavidis, cellules, sub -marginalia prima secundd brevior ; cellula posterior quarta 

 longa, sessilis. Long, corp., 12 mm. 



Frons and vertex greyish-brown, rostrum blackish, palpi blackish ; antennae 

 blackish, 1st joint elongate, 2nd considerably swollen and longer than the following 

 joints, which are at first globose but become gradually more cylindrical ; they bear 

 rather short hairs. 



Thorax somewhat yellowish-grey, but almost all occupied by the shining dark 

 brown lines, the middle one is very broad and faintly divided, extending right up to 

 the front, but behind seeming to coalesce with the side lines, which are narrower and 

 do not extend far forwards ; halteres yellow, stem very long, knob obscure. 



Abdomen brown, extreme margin yellowish ; genitalia dull ochreous ; pubes- 

 cence short, yellow. 



W r ings almost all yellowish, especially about the costal, mediastinal, sub-costal 

 and postical veins ; the venation is almost identical with A. occulta, Mg., the 

 prsefurca being rather long and appendiculated, the first sub-marginal cell distinctly 

 shorter than the second, the discal cell incomplete, and the fourth posterior elongate, 

 commencing even before the great cross vein, so that an almost continuous line of 

 cross veins runs from the base of the first sub-marginal cell to the great cross vein, 

 this line is obvious to the naked eye, but is scarcely clouded in any way ; the second 

 posterior cell (= the fork) is long, being almost as long as its stem j the fourth 

 posterior cell has its sides straighter than in A. occulta, Mg. 



Legs blackish, only the coxse, trochanters, and basal two-fifths of femora orange ; 

 spurs inconspicuous, yellowish.] 



