168 Annals of the South African Museum. 



TIPULA POMPOSA, Bergroth. 

 1888. Ent. Tidskrift., vol. 9, p. 139, fig. 4. 



A male from Barberton, Trausvaal, March, 1911 (H. Edwards) ; a 

 female from the same station, December, 1911 ; a female from 

 M'fougosi, Zululand, March, 1911 (W. E. Jones) ; Bergroth's type 

 was from Caffraria. 



The wing is shown on Plate XII, fig. 30. 



The specimens offer the following measurements : 



Male. Length 19'5 mm. ; wing 21'8 mm. 



Female. Length about 27 mm. ; wing 23'8-28'2 mm. ; fore legs, 

 femur, 12'8 mm ; tibia 15'4 mm. ; hind legs, femur, 14'4 mm. ; tibia 

 18 mm. 



Male hypopygium (Plate XIII, fig. 52) with the sclerites of the ninth 

 segment fused into a ring that is continuous except on the mid-ventral 

 line beneath ; pleural suture distinct but incomplete, slightly curved 

 at the end. Ninth tergite (Plate XIV, fig. 60) broad, the caudal margin 

 produced medially into a slender lobe whose tip is truncated with a 

 U-shaped notch ; this lobe is concave dorsally, the lateral margins 

 beiir_ p slightly elevated, the caudal margin with numerous chitimsed 

 points which continue back on the dorsal surface of the lobe for 

 about half its length : Pleural appendages two, the outer appendage 

 slightly elongate-oval, the inner appendage more rounded-oval with 

 cephalad-projecting arms. Sternal region profoundly incised on the 

 mid-ventral line, the adjacent edges barely contiguous. 



TIPULA JOCOSA, sp. n. 



Flagellum of the antennae black ; head chestnut-brown with a 

 median black stripe ; thoracic stripes dull yellow, narrowly margined 

 with dark brown ; wings greyish subhyaline with sparse brownish 

 spots and seams ; cell 1st M 2 large and ample. 



Female. Length about 25 mm. ; wing 19'8 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head reddish-brown with black dorsal 

 and lateral lines, elongated, the nasus long and slender ; palpi black, 

 the bases and apices of the first two segments dull yellow, the 

 remaining segments broken. Antennae short, the first scapal seg- 

 ment dull yellow, blackened above toward the tip ; second segment 

 brownish-black, globular ; flagellar segments elongated, black, with 

 elongated bristles. Head chestnut-brown with a well-defined median 

 black stripe, the occiput more brownish. 



Mesouotal praescutum dull yellow with four dull yellow stripes 

 that are narrowly margined with dark brown ; middle pair of stripes 



