The Crane-flies of South Africa (Dipterti, TipuliJae). 169' 



narrowly separated behind, but confluent in front, where the yellow 

 of the stripes is darkened, more greyish ; lateral margin of the sclerites. 

 black, narrowed out in front and not continuous over the mid-line ; 

 scutum dull yellow, the median area and posterior portions of the 

 lobes blackish ; scutellum dull brownish-yellow, darkened behind ; 

 postnotum yellow, broadly dark brown medially. Pleura discoloured, 

 apparently dull yellow with blackish markings. Halteres dark brown, 

 the knob light yellow. Legs with the coxae and trochauters pale - T 

 femora brownish-yellow, the tips broadly black, a little brightened 

 just before the tips ; tibiae yellowish-brown, the tips indistinctly and 

 narrowly brown ; tarsi dark brown. "Wings greyish subhyaliue, the 

 costal cell light yellow ; apex of the wing greyish in cells R. 2 , R.^, and 

 base of E 5 ; stigma dark brown ; dark brown seams along the cord 

 and the veins surrounding cell I?t M. 2 ; a brown spot at the base of 

 the wing and a brown seam along the base of vein Cu and along the 

 forks of this vein ; a large hyaline area in cell M along vein Cu ; 

 veins dark brown ; a yellow area at the base of M and Cu and a 

 smaller area just before the stigma. Venation (Plate XII, fig. 31), 

 Rs very short, R.^ not arcuated, as in Gtenncroscelis ; cells \st M* and 

 M l large and full ; petiole of cell M l not as long as the basal deflection 

 of Cn\ ; fusion of Cu\ with M" 3 subequal to the r-m cross-vein. 



Abdominal tergites pale yellowish-brown, the basal third of the 

 intermediate segments yellow ; steruites paler basally, the apical 

 sclerites darker. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, 9 , Cape Town, Cape of Clood Hope (P. C. Keytel). 



Type in the South African Museum. 



TlPULA CORONATA, sp. 11. 



Antennae with the basal four or five flagellar segments much 

 larger than the slender apical segments ; coloration dark grey with 

 a sparse yellowish pollen ; wings brownish-grey with the stigma 

 brown ; male hypopygium with the ninth tergite having the caudal 

 margin with an acute median notch. 



Male. Length 8-87 mm. ; wing 9-5-1T4 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head dark brown, the dorsal half 

 abruptly yellowish, uasus prominent ; palpi short, dark brown. 

 Antennae dark brown, the scape a little paler and with a sparse 

 greyish bloom ; first four segments of the flagellum enlarged, but 

 gradually smaller than one another, the terminal seven segments of 

 the flagellum cylindrical, slender, approximately subequal in length 

 and more yellowish than the basal flagellar segments. Head clear 



