The Cno/r-///Vx .;/' South A/rim. 203 



with a broad dark brown median stripe, broadest in front, narrowed 

 behind, ending at the suture. Halteres not elongate. Abdomen 

 dark brownish-black, the ovipositor deep rusty. 



The mouth-parts, in addition to the moderately elongate maxillary 

 palpi, possess conspicuous bi-articulate labial palpi, the distal segment 

 of which is more than twice the length of the basal segment, suddenly 

 narrowed at its apex and provided with a few sensory bristles ; the 

 inner face of this segment is nearly glabrous, the outer face with 

 numerous short, appressed, bristle-like setae. 



Male hypopygium small, the pleurites stout ; pleural appendage 

 slender, at about mid-length deeply incised, basad of the incision with 

 a small finger-like lobe ; the distal blade of the appendage with a 

 conspicuous flattened wing along the inner margin, this bearing two 

 setigerous punctures ; at the apex of the appendage are a few additional 

 setae. Gonapophyses widely separated at their insertion, inclined 

 toward one another, each one at its distal end expanded into a 

 flattened blade that is apically subtruncate. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, ? , Kaapmuiden, Eastern Transvaal, October 30th, 1918 

 (R. W. Tucker). 



Allotopotype, $ . 



Paratopotype, sex?. 



Type in the South African Museum. 



GEN. CONOSIA, van der Wulp. 

 CONOSIA IRKORATA, Wicdem., var. 



Three specimens from Waterberg, Damara Land, February, 1920 

 (R. W. Tucker). 



These specimens are smaller and more greyish than typical forms, 

 but it seems probable that these features are due to environmental 

 factors. The species is probably the most widely distributed crane- 

 fly known, occurring over practically the entire African continent, thence 

 eastward to Australia, north to Palestine and Japan. 



TRIBE LIMNOPHILINI. 

 GEN. LIMNOPHILA, Macquart. 



LlMNOPHILA FRUGI, Bergroth. 



The following additional distribution : 



<$ cJ, Pretoria, Transvaal, April 5th, 1913 (H. K. Muuro). 



c? c? ,M'fongosi, Zululand, April, May, 1916 ; February, 191 7 (W. E. 



Jones). 



