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Halteres slender, brown, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxae 

 large, yellowish, with a sparse grey pruinosity ; trochanters, femora 

 and tibiae yellow, the tips of the two latter darkened ; tarsi brown. 

 Wings with a strong brown suffusion throughout, the stigma but little 

 darker ; veins dark brown. Venation (Plate IV, fig. 16) as discussed 

 under the generic diagnosis ; 2nd A vein very short, the cell long and 

 very narrow. 



Abdominal tergites with the first segment pale laterally ; tergites 

 dark brown medially, the lateral and posterior margins paler ; sternites 

 brown. Male hypopygium (Plate IV, fig. 24) simple. Ninth tergite 

 transversely rectangular, the posterior margin squarely truncated or 

 feebly concave, the dorsal surface provided with numerous stiff, black 

 bristles. Ninth sterno-pleurite projecting strongly caudad, beneath, 

 on the mid-ventral line, profoundly incised by a V-shaped notch. 

 Pleural appendages very simple, closely applied to one another, the 

 longest with about ten to twelve sharp, black spines at the apex and 

 stiff setae along the margin, these latter directed backward ; the shorter 

 cephalic lobe is set with abundant stiff setae on raised tubercles. 



The type female is teueral, not fully coloured, but is similar to the 

 male in all but the sexual characters. 



Habitat. South Africa. 



Holotype, , M'fongosi, Zululand, April, 1917 (W. E. Jones). 



Allotopotype, $, February, 1917. 



Paratopotype, 2 <$ $ , February, 1917 ; 1 g , May, 1917. Paratype, 

 d. Maritzburg, 1917 (Conrad Akerman). 



Type in the South African Museum ; paratype in Natal Museum. 



G-EN. TIPULA, Linnaeus. 

 TIPULA CORONATA, Alexander. 



Two large male specimens from the Palmiet Eiver, Caledon Division, 

 Cape Colony (K. H. Barnard). They measure from 10-10'2 mm. in 

 length, the wings, 12'5-13'8 mm. 



TlPULA RUBRONIGRA, Sp. 11. 



Antennae very short, simple in structure ; thorax shiny yellowish, 

 the praescutum with dark brown stripes ; abdomen and legs black, the 

 hind tarsi very long and slender, greatly exceeding those of the other 

 legs ; wings broad, grey, longitudinally streaked with whitish ; male 

 hypopygium not enlarged, very simple in structure, the ninth tergite 

 with a rounded notch. 



Male. Length, 11-5-12 mm.; wing, 13'5-14'8 mm. Fore leg, 



