Genus o/Tipulidse/rom Turkestan. 



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Turkestan (Verni and Kendyk-tau, J. Sahlberg). 



Head grey, sparingly pilose; palpi fuscous; antenna? 

 yellowish testaceous, in the male scarcely passing base of 

 wings, joints oval, except the shortly cylindrical basal joint, 

 those of the apical half of the flagellum much narrower. 

 Dorsum of thorax glabrous, pale ash-grey ; pronotum more or 

 less infuscated in the middle, its narrowly laminate lateral 

 margins whitish ; mesonotum with two approximated, rather 

 narrow, sometimes anteriorly confluent, fuscous vittse ; pleura? 

 whitish. Wings as long as the body and five times longer 

 than broad, subhyaline ; stigma more or less infuscated, filling 

 the apical part of cell R t from vein R 2 to the middle of the 

 petiole o£ cell R 2 , its basal half usually darker ; base of Rs, 

 vein R 2 , ^ ne recurved part of R 3 , the petiole of cell R4+5, 

 the median cross-vein (apparent base of M 3 ), and the 



2b. 



Fig. 1 a. Wing. 



1 b. Cell M1+2 in other speci 

 mens. 



2ou. 2b. 



Ptilostena recurvinervis, Bergr. $ . 



Fig. 2 a. Propygium from above. 

 2 b. Propygium from below. 



ascending portion of Cu t bordered with fuscous; Rs as long 

 as R4+5, cell M1+2 a little shorter than its petiole, which is 

 subequal in length to the distance between apex of Cu t a and 

 base of discal cell; apex of An opposite the middle of Rs ; 

 distances between tips of Ax and An and between tips of 

 An and M 3 subequal in length. Halteres long, whitish, the 

 knob fuscous. Abdomen sparingly pilose, above brownish 

 testaceous, beneath sulphur-yellow ; propygium scarcely 

 darker than the venter, pilose, elongated, but not incrassated ; 

 basal part of the median style, seen from above, hidden under 



