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margined ou each side with black, becoming indistinct before the 

 transverse suture ; lateral stripes shiny black, slightly out-curved at 

 their anterior ends ; scutum dull yellow, the lobes with the proximal 

 half black, being caudal prolongations of the lateral praescutal 

 .stripes ; scutellum and postnotum dull yellow. Pleura light yellow 

 with pale reddish blotches, these arranged as two indistinct bauds, the 

 ventral band occupying the sternum and suffusing all the coxae ; pro- 

 pleura brownish ; sides of the postnotum largely brownish-red. Halteres 

 brown, stem paler at the base. Legs with the coxae as described above ; 

 trochauters and femora dull yellow, the latter with the tips dark 

 brownish-black ; tibiae dark brown ; tarsi broken. Wings with a 

 strong brown or yellowish-brown suffusion, the costal cell rich yellowish ; 

 stigma pale brown, indistinct ; a brown seam along Cu ; a pale vitreous 

 area before the stigma and at the base of cell 1st M%. Venation 

 (Plate XII, fig. 34), with the point of contact between Cu^ and M ;i 

 underneath cell 1st .Mo as in the genus Tipula ; Rs elongated, a-lso as in 

 Tipula ; cell M l sessile as in Nephrotoma. 



Abdomen rich orange-yellow without dorsal markings, except on the 

 fifth to eighth tergite, where there is a rounded blackish median mark ; 

 lateral margins of the sclerites darkened ; sternites with a sublinear 

 black median mark on segment five to eight, Male hypopygium 

 (Plate XIV, fig. 62) with the caudal margin of the ninth tergite almost 

 straight, produced laterally into a subacute shiny tooth, medially with 

 an obscure notch ; caudal margin shiny, heavily chitiuised, with about 

 two small black teeth on each side of this notch ; ninth pleurite nearly 

 complete, the pleural suture being very long and straight, running 

 back to the eighth segment ; outer pleural appendage elongate, pale, 

 rounded at the apex ; ninth steruite profoundly incised medially, the 

 lateral angles contiguous. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, <$ , South Africa, without exact locality. 



Type in the South African Museum. 



In the venation and the male hypopygium this form closely 

 approaches Tipula and shows the close relationship between this genus 

 and Tipula. 



NEPHROTOMA EDWARDSI, sp. u. 



Head orange without a distinct occipital mark ; thorax dusky brown 

 with darker stripes ; abdomen orange-yellow, the apical segments, 

 including the hypopygium, blackish ; legs black except at the extreme 

 bases of the femora. 



Male. Length 14'5 mm. ; wing 147 mm. 



