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brown, the front and anterior portion of the vertex whitish, this 

 continued backward as a narrow pale margin around the eyes ; a 

 median impressed line on the anterior portion of the broad vertex. 



Mesonotum light brownish-grey, the praescutum with four dark 

 brown stripes, the middle pair long and only indistinctly separated 

 from one another by the pale ground colour ; lateral stripes short, 

 confluent with the intermediate stripes ; region of the pseudosutural 

 foveae grey ; scutellum and postuotum greyish. Pleura pale grey with 

 indistinct dark brown blotches on the mesopleura. Halteres rather 

 long, dark brown, the stem much paler. Legs with the hind coxae 

 pale, the fore and middle coxae darkened ; trochauters pale ; femora 

 dark brownish-black, darkest apically ; tibiae abruptly light yellow, 

 dark brown at the tips ; metatarsi and the second tarsal segment 

 yellow, darkened at the tips ; remaining tarsal segments dark brown. 

 Wings dark brown, the anal cells more greyish, the cells streaked with 

 whitish, these pale streaks occupying the bases of cells 1st R^, R 2 and 

 ]st A ; the end of cell R ; the centres of cells R^, M l9 1st M 2 , 2nd If.,, 

 J/ 4 , M, Cu } and 2nd A. Venation (Plate IV, fig. 21) : Rs elongate, 

 rather strongly angulated at origin ; R 2 persistent, deflected strongly 

 cephalad or outwards at its apex ; petiole of cell Mj about equal to m; 

 fusion of <?! on lf 3 + 4 extensive, about equal to m, the fusion beginning 

 at or just beyond the fork of M, ending at about two-fifths the length 

 of cell 1st M 2 . 



Abdominal tergites dark brown above, the basal tergite light yellow, 

 the terminal tergites indistinctly marked with dull yellow laterally ; 

 caudal margin of the segments ringed with dull silvery. Steruites 

 mottled dark brown and yellow. Ovipositor with the tergal valves 

 long, slender, straight ; sternal .valves flattened, compressed, ending a 

 little beyond mid-length of the tergal valves. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, Q , M'fougosi, Zululaud, December, 1916 (W. E. Jones). 



Allotype, ? , with the type. 



Paratopotype, $ . 



Type in the South African Museum. 



This very interesting species is named in honour of its collector, who 

 has discovered many interesting crane-fly novelties. Unfortunately 

 the abdomen of the unique male is broken off, and nothing can be 

 stated about the male hypopygium. 



GEN. IDIOTIPULA, gen. u. 



Frontal prolongation of the head slender, moderately elongated . 

 nasus very short, indistinct, surrounded by numerous pale hairs; 



