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oephalad, the outer margin of the lobe fringed with delicate erect hairs. 

 Angle of the pleural region ventrad of the appendages, and the adjacent 

 region of the ninth stemite each with a sparse brush of long yellow 

 hairs. Ninth sternite profoundly incised on the mid-ventral line, the 

 margins of the incision pale yellow, contiguous with one another. 

 Eighth steruite cariuate, unarmed. 



Allotype, c?, Maritzburg, Natal, 1917 (K. H. Barnard). 



Allotype in the South African Museum. 



TIPULA SETOSIPENNIS, Alexander. 

 1920. Tip (da setosipennis, Alex., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 5, 



pp. 61, 62. 

 Cedara, Natal, March 12th, 1920 (S. H. Skaife). 



GEN. NEPHEOTOMA, Meig. 

 NEPHROTOMA CROCEA (Loew.), var. 



Waterberg, Damaraland, February, 1920 (E. W. Tucker). 



These specimens are scarcely typical of this species, and yet there are 

 no tangible characters on which to separate them. The differences in 

 coloration are probably explainable by ecological factors involved. 



