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quart); Eeunion (Loew) ; Madagascar (Bigot) ; Caffraria (Bergroth) ; 

 Kilimandjaro (Speiser). 



The following records are contained in the material at hand : 

 9, Natal, Krantz Kloof, February, 1916 (Marley), bearing the 

 number 852. 



c, Zululaud, M'fongosi, February, 1912 (W. E. Jones). 

 9 , Southern Rhodesia, Que Que (Bultitude) ; ? , Salisbury, 

 May 12th, 1914. 



The specimens give the following measurements : 



Male. Length 17 mm.; wing 20'5 mm.; middle leg, femur 13'3 

 mm. ; tibia 13'8 mm. ; hind leg, femur 13'8 mm. ; tibia 15 mm. 



Female. Length 24 mm. ; wing 21 mm. 



The wing is shown on Plate XI, fig. 27. 



The male hypopygium has the ninth tergite (Plate XIV, fig. 57) 

 elongate, slightly narrowed toward the tip, deeply split by a narrow 

 V-shaped notch, the adjacent lobes slender, rounded at their tips , 

 the dorsal surface with an abundance of delicate appressed hairs. 



GEN. TIPULA, Linnaeus. 



1758. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 585. 



TIPULA CHIONOIDES, sp. n. 



Subapterous, at least in the female sex ; uasus bifid at the apex ; 

 coloration dark brown ; legs short. 



Female. Length 15 mm. ; wing '9 mm. ; fore legs, femur 3'7 mm. ; 

 tibia 4'2 mm. ; tarsus 4'6 mm. ; hind legs, femur 5 - 5 mm. ; tibia 

 6'1 mm. ; tarsus about 6'5 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head rather elongate, dark brown, the 

 apex deeply bifid by a U-shaped notch (Plate XIII, fig. 44), producing 

 two nasiform projections, each of which is armed with numerous 

 strong bristles ; palpi short, dark brown, the terminal segment not 

 elongated. Antennae with the two. basal segments dark brown, the 

 flagellar segments dull yellowish ; first scapal segment elongate- 

 cylindrical ; the second short-globular ; flagellar segments short- 

 cylindrical. Head dark brown with a strong median tubercle on the 

 vertex just behind the anteunal bases. 



Thorax dark brown with a sparse yellowish pollen, but without 

 distinct stripes ; pleura dark brown with a sparse yellowish-brown 

 bloom. Halteres with the knob elongated, dark brown throughout. 

 Legs with the coxae powerful, elongate, dark brown ; trochauters 

 similar in colour ; femora very short, especially the anterior pair, 

 incrassate, dark brown ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings very 



