The Crane-flies of South Africa (Diptera, Tipulidae). 167 



verticils. Head deep brownish-orange without distinct darker 

 markings. 



Mesonotal praescutum dull orange-yellow with four stripes that are 

 mottled orange and dark brown, the elongate middle pair almost con- 

 tinuous along the median line, the lateral stripes lying very close to the 

 central pair ; scutum light yellow with a greenish tinge, each lobe with 

 two dark marks, the larger one lying caudally and nearer the median 

 line ; scutellum and postnotum dull yellow, the latter with a strong 

 greenish tinge. Pleura clear light yellow, unmarked. Halteres 

 dark brown. Legs with the coxae and trochanters light yellow ; 

 femora yellowish-brown, the tips darker brown ; tibiae light brown, 

 the tips narrowly darker brown ; tarsi dark brown. Wings with a 

 yellowish-grey tinge, the costal region and the stigma yellowish ; veins 

 dark brown. Venation ( Plate XII, fig. 29)', Rs short, straight, oblique ; 

 cells R z very small. 



Abdomen with the basal segments light yellow, suit-basal segments 

 dull yellow, indistinctly and narrowly trivittate with dark brown, the 

 segments soon passing into a more uniform brownish. Male hypopy- 

 gium (Plate XIII, fig. 53) with thesclerites of the ninth segment fused 

 into a continuous ring except on the mid-ventral line of the sternite. 

 Region of the ninth tergite (Plate XIV, fig. 59) with the median area 

 slightly projecting caudad and bearing on either side of the median 

 line a flattened subacute lobe, the space between these horns U-shaped 

 and a little less than the diameter of a single horn ; the horns divergent. 

 Outer pleural appendage a broad flattened pale lobe that is obliquely 

 truncated at the apex, and the outer face with rather sparse sub- 

 appressed black bristles ; inner pleural appendage more complex, 

 consisting of a long finger-like lobe that projects cephalad, the caudal 

 edge with a fringe of long yellow bristles. Region of the ninth sternite 

 extensive, carinate on the mid-ventral line, the edges closely approxi- 

 mated. Eighth sternite unarmed. 



The female has the thoracic stripes indistinct, the abdominal segments 

 yellowish-brown, indistinctly and narrowly trivittate with darker brown ; 



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ovipositor with the tergal valves very long and slender, the apices 

 slightly expanded ; sternal valves short, deep, the tips somewhat 

 rounded to subacute. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, , Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, July, 1911 (L. Perin- 

 guey). 



Allotype, 9 , Kafue River, Northern Rhodesia, 1906 (J. Drury). 



Paratype, ?, Krantz Kloof, Natal, January, 1915 (Marley). 



Type in the South African Museum. 



