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basal half of the anal cells subhyaline ; cell 1st M 2 long and narrow ; 

 abdomen dark brown, the lateral margins broadly dull yellow. 



Male. Length 18 mm. ; wing 18 mm. ; fore leg, femur 10'3 mm., 

 tibia 13 mm. ; middle leg, femur 11"2 mm. ; wing 12 mm. ; hind leg, 

 femur 12'2 mm., tibia 15'8 mm., tarsus about 32 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head brown, the nasus distinct, slightly 

 bifid at apex and clothed with long black hairs ; palpi dark brown, the 

 terminal segment about equal to the second. Antennae rather short, 

 the first segment of the scape long, first segment of the flagellum 

 pedicillate ; remaining segments oval, with subappressed verticils and 

 a coarse white pubescence ; antennae brownish- black, the second and 

 third segments paler brown. Head dark grey, paler grey on the 

 prominent vertical tubercle and along the inner margin of the eye, 

 passing into brown on the occipital region. 



Mesouotal praescutum light brown, with four stripes, the inter- 

 mediate pair narrowly separated by a pale vitta, brown, grey pruiuose, 

 at least anteriorly ; lateral stripes dark brown ; scutellum dull yellowish; 

 postnotum dark grey pruinose. Pleura light grey, the dorsal sclerites 

 and the dorso-pleural membrane more tawny. Halteres light brown, 

 the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxae and trochanters dull 

 yellow ; femora brown, a little paler basally ; tibiae dull brownish- 

 yellow, covered with an abundant black pubescence, the tips broadly 

 dark brown ; tarsi brownish -black. Wings dark brownish-grey with 

 a subhyaliue longitudinal stripe at about mid-width of the disc and the 

 bases of the anal cells pale ; the pale stripe includes almost all of cells 

 M, 1st M 2 and J? 5 , the tip of the latter narrowly iufumed ; stigma 

 brownish ; veins dark brown. The wing pattern suggests the type 

 found in the Nearctic Tipida bella, Lw. ; there is scarcely any white 

 colour in cells M lt If 2 , M 4 or Cu-^ except very indistinct clouds near the 

 base ; a broad dark seam along vein Cu. Venation as in L. bonae spei 

 (Bergr.), but cell 1st M^ long and narrow, petiole of cell M l very 

 short ; cell M l broad, the veins M l and M. 2 short. 



Abdomen not elongated ; tergites dark brown, the lateral margins 

 broadly dull yellowish except on the eighth and ninth segments ; 

 sternites dull yellow, broadly ringed with dark brown. Hypopygium 

 light yellowish -brown. Hypopygium as in the genus, the tergite with 

 a deep V-shaped notch, the lateral lobes rather pointed, margined with 

 pale ; ninth steruo-pleurite elongate. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, , Zouder End, Peak, Caledon, Cape Colony, altitude 

 5400 ft., January, 1919 (K. H. Barnard). 



Type in the South African Museum. 



