68 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



brown stripe along each side of the abdomen, whose tip is also 

 brown : legs reddish brown ; thighs tawny, with brown tips : wings 

 tawny, adorned with five or six colourless spots various in size and 

 in shape, and having also a brown spot near the tip of the fore bor- 

 der ; veins brown ; some of the longitudinal veins slightly clouded. 

 Length of the body 8 — 10 lines ; of the wings 16—18 lines. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



Tipula melanomera, n. s., mas. Lcete fulva, capite abdominisque 

 apice nigris, thoracis disco rufo, antennis nigris, pedibus rufo- 

 fuscis, alis subfuscis, stigmate obscuriore. 



Allied to T. ochracea. Body bright orange, velvet-like : head 

 and its appendages black : disk of the chest deep red : tip of the 

 abdomen black: legs dark reddish brown; hips orange-colour: 

 wings pale brown, with a darker spot of the same colour near the 

 tip of the fore border; veins dark brown ; poisers brown, orange at 

 the base. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



Tipula velutina, n. s., mas. Ferruginea, thorace bivittato, abdomi- 

 nis suturis apiceque nigris, femoribus basi ferrugineis, alis sub- 

 cinereis, stigmate cinereo. 



Body bright ferruginous, velvet-like on the chest : feelers black 

 ferruginous at the base, longer than the chest : eyes black : two 

 pale ferruginous stripes along the back of the chest : hind borders 

 of the fore segments and the whole of the hinder segments of the 

 abdomen black : legs black ; thighs dark ferruginous towards the 

 base: wings slightly gray; a very small narrow dark gray spot at 

 the tip of the first longitudinal vein ; veins and poisers black. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 17 lines 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Kev. D. F. Morgan. 



Tipula frigida, n. s., fern. Cana, thorace fulvo trivittato, abdomine 

 fulvo apice ferrugineo suturis fuscis, antennis pedibusque fulvis, 

 tarsis fuscis, alis albis fusco variis, margine antico fiavescente 

 fusco trimaculato. 



Head hoary : eyes black : mouth tawny : palpi brown : feelers 

 tawny, beset with short hairs, very much shorter than the chest: 

 chest hoary, with the usual three stripes of a tawny colour : abdomen 

 tawny, shining ; its tip ferruginous ; sutures of the segments brown : 

 legs tawny, pubescent, long and slender ; shanks darker than the 

 thighs; feet brown : wings white, marbled with brown, and having 

 three darker and more clearly defined brown marks along the fore 



