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segment entirely black; hypopygiuni reddish. Al)donien of female dark, dis- 

 tended with eggs: ovipositor reddish horn-colour. Male hypopygium somewhat 

 as in II. edwardsiana; ninth tergite with a shallow median notch and broader 

 and slightly deeper lateral notches. Sterno-pleurite prolonged considerably 

 beyond the level of the tergite, the pleural appendages borne at the apex; outer 

 appendage slender, pale; inner appendage a flattened blade with the apex bifid, 

 the base rounded and tumid, densely hairy. Ninth sternite with a verv deep 

 and narrow U-shaped median notch. Eighth sternite with-a very low V-shaped 

 notch, the margin unarmed. Ovipositor with the tergal \alves comparatively 

 slender; sterrkal vahes long, compressed, the tips obtuse. 



Habitat. — Nyasaland. 



Ilfllotype.—d', Mt. Mlanje, January 6, 19i;3, (S. A. Neave). 



Allotype. — 9 , January, February, 1914, (J. B. Davey). 



Presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology 1913-230, 1915-58. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). 



Genus Tipula Linnaeus. 

 Tipula (Tipulodina) milanjii, sp. n. 



Coloration orange-yellow; prascutum and scutum largely shiny black; legs 

 black, the tibiae with a broad whitish ring beyond the base; wings brownish 

 yellow, stigma oval, dark brown; abdomen orange-yellow, the tergites ringed 

 caudally with velvety black. 



Female. — Length about 26.5 mm.; wing about 21.5 mm.; abdomen alone, 

 19.2 mm. Fore leg, femur 10.7 mpi.; tibia 13.3 mm.; metatarsus, 9.8 mm.; 

 2nd tarsal segment 3.1 mm. ; 3rd to, fifth tarsal segments 3 mm. Hind leg, femur 

 13.8 mm.; tibia 15 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head rather short, clear orange-yellow; nasus 

 short and stout; mouth-parts and palpi brown. Antennae with the scapal seg- 

 ments fiery orange; flagellar segments cylindrical, dark brown; verticils rather 

 short. Head fiery orange; a small black spot on the ventral side adjoining the 

 inner margin of the eye; vertex broad, eyes small. 



Pronotum yellow. Mesonotum yellow, the praescutum with three broad, 

 shiny black stripes, the narrow interspaces opaque velvety-black so the dorsum 

 appears to be almost entirely black, only the lateral regions of the ground colour;, 

 scutal lobes shiny black; scutellum clear light yellow, the lateral wings brown; 

 postnotum light yellow. Pleura light orange-yellow. Mesosternum a little 

 infuschted. Halteres dark brown, the base of the stem narrowly pale. Legs 

 with the coxae and trochanters orange-yellow; femora dark brownish black, 

 the extreme base brighter; tibiae black with a rather broad (1.7 mm.) whitish 

 ring just beyond the base; tarsi brownish black; metatarsi much shorter than 

 tibia- : femora slightly enlarged apically; claws of female simple, empodia pale. 

 Wings rather broad, with a pale brownish yellow suffusion; cell C light brown, 

 cell Sc dark brown; stigma dark brown, oval; indistinct brown seams along the 

 cord; veins dark brownish black. \'enation: Rs rather short, slightly arcuated; 

 R-i short, about one-half the length of R<i+:^; ni-cii very short but present. 



Abdomen with tergites one to fi\e orange-yellow; segments two to five 

 with the posterior margins deep velvety-black and sending a paler brown band 

 cephalad to the anterior margin of the segments; tergites six and seven similar 



