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Family TIPULID^E. Tipulidans. 



CXCVII. Genus TIPULA. Linn. 



(434) 1. * Tipula Pratorum. Tipula of the Meadows. 



T. (Pratorum) schisticolor ; prothorace fusco, quadrilineato ; abdomine flavo, lineis tribus longitudinalibus anoque, fuscis ; 



pedibus, antennisquebasi, testaceis ; alts nebulosis. 

 Tipula of the Meadows, slate-coloured; prothorax with four brown stripes ; abdomen yellow, with three longitudinal lines 



and the anus brown ; legs and antennae testaceous at the base ; wings clouded. 



Length of the body 7 lines. 



Taken with the preceding. 



DESCRIPTION. 



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Head and trunk slate-coloured. Antenna; black, with the scape yellow : thorax with four brown 

 stripes, the lateral ones abbreviated : wings embrowned, clouded with white ; nervures black, but those 

 at the base of the wing are testaceous ; there is a black dot or two near the anterior margin ; and 

 the stigma, or what represents it, is black ; the poisers are pale but black at the tip : legs obscurely 

 testaceous ; thighs and shanks black at the tip ; tarsi black : abdomen clubbed, yellow, with a longi- 

 tudinal dorsal brown stripe ; anal club black. 



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Wings not spotted with white : legs distinctly testaceous, black at the joints ; last joints of the 

 tarsi black : abdomen lanceolate, yellow, with a dorsal, ventral, and on each side a lateral, brown stripe. 



Family BIBIONID^E. Bibionidans. 



CXCVIII. Genus ASPISTES. Hoff. 

 xxxii. Subgenus Artiiiua. Kirb. 



Antenna, novemarticulatse, ultimis articulis vix distinctis. 

 Oculi reniformes, antennarum basin cingentes. 

 Stemmata tria. 

 Femora antica incrassata. 



The little insect which forms' the type of this subgenus differs chiefly from Aspistes of Count 

 Hoffmansegg, 5 in having one joint more in the antennae ; the three terminal ones are closely imbri- 

 cated so as to be scarcely distinguishable ; and the last is of a different form. 6 The neuration of 

 the wings, in both, is precisely the same ; and in both the anterior tibia terminates in a spine. 



5 Meig. Dipt, i, 319, t. xi,/ 16, 17. 6 See Plate vi,/. 8, a. 



