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TRIBE L1MNOPHILINI. 



GEN. LIMNOPHILA, Macquart. 

 1834. Suit, a Buffon. vol. 1, p. 95. 



LIMNOPHILA TRANSVAALICA, sp. n. 



Auteunae elongate ; head dark grey ; thorax and abdomen orange- 

 yellow ; wings yellowish without markings. 



Female. Length 1O6 mm. ; wing 11'3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi brown. Antennae with the first segment 

 elongated, light brown with a pale bloom ; second segment brown ; 

 flagellar segments elongate-cylindrical, black, with sparse pale hairs 

 and strong bristles near mid-length of the segments. Head prominent, 

 subtriangular, the eyes being large and semiprotuberent ; space be- 

 tween the eyes rather narrowed ; anterior portion of the vertex with a 

 pale grey bloom, remainder of the head dark grey, passing into brownish 

 on the occiput ; several prominent bristles on the vertex along the inner 

 margin of the eye and another group on the sides of the occiput. 



Thorax dull brownish-yellow to orange without distinct darker 

 markings. Pleura more yellowish. Halteres light yellow at the 

 base passing into brown toward and on the knob. Legs with the 

 coxae and trochanters light yellow ; femora brown, brighter basally ; 

 tibiae dark brown basally, the remainder broken. Wings with a 

 strong yellowish tinge, the stigma indistinct, pale brown ; costa dark 

 brown ; remaining veins yellowish-brown. Venation (Plate XI, fig. 19), 

 Sc long ending beyond the fork of Bs ; cross-vein r at the tip of R-^ ; 

 basal deflection of Cu l beyond the middle of cell 1st M 2 . 



Abdominal tergites brownish-yellow, the eighth and ninth segments 

 black ; sternites reddish-yellow ; ovipositor yellowish, the elongate 

 acicular tergal valves directed strongly upward at the tip. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, $ , Barberton, Transvaal, November, 1911 (H. Edwards). 



Type in the South African Museum. 



The structure of the female antennae indicates an elongate organ in 

 the male sex. 



LIMNOPHILA FRUGI, Bergroth. 

 1888. Ent. Tidskrift, vol. 9, pp. 137, 138. 



Two specimens from Natal, a male, Grillets, September, 1915 

 (Marley), and a specimen of uncertain sex from Krantz Kloof, 

 February, 1915 (Marley). 



