The Crane-flies of Soiith Africa (Diptera, Tipulidae). 149 



Holotype, <$, Cape Town, August, 1909 (Lightfoot). 

 Allotype, $ , with the type. 

 Paratopotypes, 6 $ . 



ERIOPTERA (ERIOPTERA) PERINGUEYI, Bergroth. 



1888. Ent. Tidskr., vol. 9, pp. 129, 130. 



The types, bearing Bergroth's label (No. 3), are from Stellenbosch, 

 near Cape Town, November, 1887 (Peringuey). There are a few other 

 specimens in the collection bearing the label " Cape Town, Cape 

 Colony." The wing of this beautiful Erioptera is figured on Plate X, 

 fig. 12. The specimens show the following measurements : 

 Male. Length 7 mm. ; wing 5 - 8 mm. 

 Female. Length 6*9-7 mm ; wing 7'2 mm. 



GEN. TRIMICRA, Osteu Sackeu. 



1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 290. 



TRIMICRA INCONSPICUA, Loew. 



1866. Berlin Eutomol. Zeitschr., vol. 10, p. 59 (Gnophomyia) . 

 Several specimens of both sexes from Smithfield, Orange River 

 Colony (Kanuemeyer) ; a few from Stelleubosch, near Cape Town. 

 These agree closely with the original description of the species. It is 

 possible that the Limnobia lanuginipes, Walker (Ins. Saunders., p. 485, 

 1856) is the same species, although there is a considerable discrepancy 

 in size. The wing is shown on Plate X, fig. 13. 



GEN. PLATYLIMNOBIA, gen. u. 



Rostrum and palpi short. Head large, wider than the narrow 

 thorax. Antennae short, 16-segmeuted ; first scapal segment elongated, 

 the second short, subglobular, shorter than the first flagellar segment ; 

 flagellar segments cylindrical. Front broad, widely separating the 

 eyes ; eyes with coarse ommatidia. Mesothoracic dorsurn very flattened, 

 depressed, the praescutum short, not projecting over the pronotum. 

 Halteres small, twisted, with about seven or eight bristles on the 

 elongate knob. Legs slender, the coxae very large, tibiae unspurred- 

 Wiugs reduced to mere pads without apparent venation ; a series of 

 about twenty-five bristles along the costa, about four in the radial 

 field and about five in the median field. Male hypopygium with the 

 pleural pieces short, stout, cylindrical, with rather abundant stout 

 hairs that are larger and more abundant toward the tip ; inner faces 

 of the pleurites grooved to receive the appendages when in a position 



