The Crane-flies of South Africa (Diptera, Tipulidae}. 145 



The female is similar to the male, but in this latter sex Sc-^ is about 

 three to four times the length of Sc 2 . The whole body in the living 

 insect is undoubtedly strongly greenish, but this colour is lost in 

 .specimens that are pinned for many years. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, $ , Univoti, Natal (H. Fry). 



Allotype, 9 , Stella Bush, near Durban, October 17th, 1915 (Marie y) 



Type in the South African Museum. 



The genus Libnotes is Oriental in its distribution, and this is the 

 first African species to be described. 



TRIBE ANTOCHINI. 



GEN. RHAMPHIDIA, Meigen. 

 1830. Syst. Beschr., vol. 6, p. 281. 



RHAMPHIDIA CAPENSIS, sp. u. 



Thorax black, the praescutum with a yellowish brown median 

 stripe that is indistinct behind and is split by a narrow black vitta ; 

 wings spotted. 



Male. Length 9 - 5 mm. ; wing 9'2 mm. 



Rostrum slender, elongated, half again as long as the head, black ; 

 palpi black. Antennae rather short, first segment dark brown, 

 .second segment dark brown basally, bright yellow apically ; basal 

 flagellar segments pale at the base, darkened at the tip; terminal 

 flagellar segments uniformly dark brown. Front greyish ; vertex 

 comparatively narrow, dark brown ; occiput similar. 



Thorax gibbous. Prouotum dull yellow. Mesouotal praescutum 

 black ; a yellowish-brown median stripe, indistinct behind, split by 

 .a narrow black median vitta ; lateral stripes yellow, broad, distinct 

 and well-defined ; area around the pseudosutural and transverse 

 sutures yellowish ; scutum yellow, the lobes black ; scutellum and 

 postuotum black or dark brown. Pleura dark brownish black. 

 Halteres light yellow. Legs with the coxae dull yellow, the outer 

 faces iuf uscated, darkest on the middle coxae ; trochauters yellow ; 

 femora yellow, passing into brown toward the tip, the apex narrowly 

 blackened ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings light grey, the costal 

 cells and cell 2nd E l light yellow; veins dark brown ; brown markings 

 as follows . The stigma, base of vein M, origin of Bs, mid-distance 

 between the last two, along the cord and outer end of cell 1st M 2 



