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cross-vein not quite half its length behind the mid cross-vein, 
the mid and the supernumerary meeting at an angle; the lower 
branch of the fifth markedly curved upwards towards the apex 
of the upper branch. 
Halteres pale ochraceous. 
Length. —2*3 mm. 
Habitat. —Shajahanpur, N. W. P., India (Giles). 
Observations. —Described from the type sent me in Lieut.-Col. 
Giles’s collection (a single female). 
It was taken by him in his dining-room, on the wall beneath 
a lighted lamp. No more specimens could be found. 
The thoracic ornamentation is very characteristic. It is the. 
only Asiatic Corethra yet recorded. 
5. Corethra punctipennis. Say. 
C. trivittata. Loew. 
(Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iii. 16, Say; Eut. Zeitung Stctin, 
p. 338 (1885), Von Roder.) 
“ Pale yellowish, with fuscous hairs; antennae banded black. Thorax 
with three yellowish-brown stripes, the middle one narrower behind than 
in front, the lateral ones smaller in front, expanding posteriorly; meta- 
notum black ; scutellum fuscous at the sides; abdomen with black bands. 
Legs pale yellow; metatarsus fuscous at the apex, also the apices of the 
femora and bases and apices of the tibiae banded black. Wings trans¬ 
parent, with brown spots.” 
Length. —2J lines. 
Habitat. —Pennsylvania (Say); Maine (Osten-Sacken) ; Porto 
llico (Von Roder.) 
Note. —Compiled from Say and Loew’s descriptions. 
6. Corethra culiciformis. De Geer (1776). 
Tipula culiciformis. De Geer. 
(Mem. pour serv. a l’Hist. d’lns. vi. 372, De Geer; Hist. Nat. Cr. et Ins. xiv. 
288, Latreille; Dipt. Beschr. i. 16, 2, Meigen; Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 47, 2, 
Macquart; Regn. Anim. (2nd edit.) v. 441, Latreille; Gen. Crust, iv. 247, 
Latreille; Anim. sans Vert. iii. 443, 1, Lamarck; Ins. Brit. Dipt. iii. 
251, Walker; Fn. Austr. ii. Schiner; Overs. K. Dansk Vidensk. Selsk. 
p. 16 (1883), Meinert.) 
Head chestnut-brown; rostrum brown, with dark hairs; 
palpi dark brown, with dark brown hairs; eyes black and 
