Male. Blackish brown. Head and thorax with three silvery stripes, the middle one very distinct; scutellum reddish; pectus with silvery gloss; abdomen with silvery bands, which are narrow above, broad beneath; femora pale towards the base; knees snow-white; hind tarsi with 5 broad snow-white bands; middle tarsi with the first and second joints white at the base; wings slightly greyish; veins black, fringed. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 5 lines.
Fam. TIPULIDÆ.
Gen. Megistocera, Wied.
4. Megistocera tuscana, Wied. Auss. Zweist. 1. 55. 1. Inhabits also Java.
Gen. Gynoplistia, Westw.
5. Gynoplistia Jurgiosa, n. s. Mas. et Fœm. Nigra, capite rufescente, alis cinereis, plagis costalibus nigro-fuscis.—Mas. Abdomine ochraceo, apice nigro, femoribus basi testaceis.—Fœm. Abdomine atro fasciis albidis apice luteo.
Male and Female. Black. Head reddish; antennæ testaceous at the base; thorax testaceous in front; wings greyish, blackish-brown along the costa, and with three subcostal blackish-brown patches, the third continued along the veins towards the hind border. Male. Abdomen ochraceous, black at the tip; femora testaceous at the base; halteres testaceous. Female. Abdomen deep black, with whitish bands on the sutures; tip luteous. Length of the body 5-6 lines; of the wings 9-10 lines.
Fam. STRATIOMIDÆ, Haliday.
Gen. Ptilocera, Wied.
6. Ptilocera quadridentata. See Vol. 1. p. 7.