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The female is smaller than the male ; antennae short ; frontal 

 tubercle smaller; valves of the ovipositor blunt (as in longicornis). 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, $ , junction of the Crocodile and Marico Eivers, Transvaal, 

 February, 1918 (E. Tucker). 



Allotopotype, $ . 



Type in the South African Museum. 



ERIOCERA HUMILIS, sp. n. 



Coloration brown ; legs yellowish-brown with the tips of the femora 

 and tibiae dark ; wings pale brown ; antennae of the male greatly 

 elongated. 



Male. Length 5'6 mm. ; wing 7'3 mm. ; antennae about 15 mm. 



Female. Wing 6 mm. 



Similar to E. capensis, as described above, but smaller ; general 

 coloration brown, the legs dull yellowish-brown with the tips of the 

 femora and tibiae darker ; wings pale brown ; Sc longer ; basal 

 deflection of Ci^ beyond the fork of M (Plate III, fig. 9). 



It will be noted that in this group of species, as well as in a very 

 few other groups of crane-flies, the males are larger than the females. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, $ , junction of the Crocodile and Marico Eivers, Transvaal, 

 February, 1918 (E. Tucker). 



Allotopotype, $ . 



Type in the South African Museum. 



SUB-FAMILY TIPULINAE. 

 TRIBE TIPULINI. 



A recent study of the immature stages of crane-flies has shown that 

 the tribe Dolichopeziui as used in the first part of this series of papers 

 is scarcely valid, and is now relegated to the synouomy of the Tipulini. 



GEN. DOLICHOPEZA, Curtis. 

 SUB -GEN. TEICHODOLICHOPEZA, Alexander. 

 DOLICHOPEZA (TRICHODOLICHOPEZA) HIRTIPENNIS, Alexander. 



A male and a female from Inchauga, Natal, November, 1917 

 (K. H. Barnard). A male and a female from Krantzkop, Natal, 

 November, 1917 (K. H. Barnard). The wing of the male measures 

 9'7-9'8 mm. ; that of the female 11-1T4 mm. The specimens differ 

 somewhat from the type, but this difference is not sufficient for 



