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a capillar)- dark brown line; interspaces dark; lateral margins obscure yellow; 

 a small, brown spot on the lateral margin opposite the anterior end of the lateral 

 stripes: scutal lobes brown; scutellum brown, the lateral wings paler; postnotum 

 with ilu' median sclerite largely uniform brown, the lateral margins narrowl>', 

 the posterior margin more broadly, pale; lateral sclerites of postnotum with an 

 ill-defined brown spot near the centre. Pleura obscure unicolorous yellow. 

 Halteres broken. Legs with the coxa? and trochanters obscure yellow; femora 

 light brown, the tips rather narrowly blackened; tibia^ brown, the tips narrowly 

 and indistinctly darkened; tarsi dark brown. Wings with a strong brownish 

 yellow tinge, the costal and subcostal cells more saturated; basal deflection 

 of i?j+5 and r-m indistinctly seamed with darker; Cu and its branches likewise 

 seamed with darker; veins dark brown. X'enation: Rs shorter than R-i+z; 

 petiole of cell Mi a little longer than m; fusion of Mz and Cih very slight. 



Abdomen reddish brown, the tergites with indistinct lateral stripes; apex 

 of the abdomen broken. 



Habitat. — Madagascar. 



Holotype. — Sex?, Ekongo, South-western Madagascar, (E. Bartlett) B. M. 

 No. 78-58. 



T\pe in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). 



Tipula victoria, sp. n. 



Closely allied to T. zamheziensis; size larger, wing over 19 mm.; ninth 

 tergite of the male hypopygium produced caudad into a short, broad, median 

 lobe whose posterior margin is gently concave, the lateral lobes neither con- 

 spicuous nor divergent. 



Male. — Length 20-21 mm.; wing 19.5 mm. 



Ff'wa/e.— Length about 21 mm.; wing 19.5 mm. 



Generally similar to T. zambeziensis Alexander, differing as follows: Size 

 larger; brown seams along the deflection of i?4-r5 and r-m more extensive and 

 distinct; stigma dark brown. In the allotype veins Mg and Cwi are fused for a 

 considerable space, but in the type male this fusion is punctiform. The female 

 has a rounded dark brown spot on the lateral margin of the pra^scutum, but 

 otherwise the mesonotum is quite unmarked with darker as in this group of 

 species. The wings of the female are darker than those of the male, with a 

 large obliterative area before and a somewhat smaller spot beyond the stigma. 

 Male hypopygium with the ninth tergite extensive, the median area produced 

 caudad into a short, broad, depressed or sHghth' hollowed-out lobe whose 

 posterior margin is rather deeply concave, the lateral lobes short and not divergent 

 as in T. zambeziensis. Ninth sternite profoundly incised medially as in the 

 zambeziensis group of species, the notch extending almost to the eighth sternite; 

 at the base of this notch are two parallel pencils of stiff, erect bristles, directed 

 caudad : in zambeziensis these bristles are less conspicuous and tend to be decus- 

 sate apically. 



The female is considerably darker than the male, but for the time being, 

 at least, must be considered as belonging to this same species. 

 . Habitat. — ^Uganda. 



Holotype.— d', Mabira Forest, Chagwe, altitude 3.500-3.800 feet, July 

 16-25, 1911. (S. A. Neave). B. M. No. 1913-140. 



