6. Tipulidae and Culicidae from the Lake of Tiberias 
and Damascus. 
By F. W. Epwarps, B.A., F.E.S.! 
The collection = Tipulidae and Culicidae made by Dr. 
Annandale in October 1912, and forwarded to me for deter- 
mination, though far from numerous either in sta cidtials or 
species,—only three species of Tipulidae and seven of Culicidae 
eing present,—has yet proved of very considerable interest. 
Three species at least are new to science, one of them (the 
Palaearctic region. The occurrence of Conosia irrorata makes 
a notable extension of the known range of this widely spread 
species. 
TIPULIDAE. 
l. Geranomyia annandalei, sp. n. 
¢. Whole body dingy ochreous-brown ; antennae, pro- 
boscis, tips of femora, _wing-veins and knobs of halteres darker 
be 
End of first longitudinal vein turned sharply up to the costa 
long as broad, the vein arising from it — equidistant 
at their base. Great cross-vein exactly at base seal cell 
in the type, slightly before it in one paratype, slightly after 
in the other. 
Length of _— (without proboscis) 5°5 mm., of proboscis 
3 mm., of win 
Three on te Plain of Gennesaret. ‘‘ Taken on limestone 
cliff overhanging spring. Dancing in the air and then alighting 
on iis cliff and swaying up and down.’ A.) 
! Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. 
