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except behind to near extremity of 2nd joint ; abdomen black with slight 

 yellow segmental hnes on 1st and 3rd segments ; forelegs black -ttdth the coxae 

 white with a black bar just before extremity, the tibiae with some ochreous and 

 white at extremity and fringe of white hair on outer side, the tarsi white except 

 below, the mid legs with the coxae and femora mostly white and the tarsi white 

 below, the hind legs with the coxae and femora mostly white, the tibiae with 

 white bar above at middle, the tarsi ochreous below ; ventral surface of abdomen 

 ochreous white. Forewing with the costal area, veins, discoidal bar, and inner 

 area greenish black ; a hyaUne streak above inner margin before middle and 

 wedge-shaped patch in end of cell ; the interspaces beyond the cell between veins 

 9 and 3 hyaline, leaving a very narrow line on termen and the cilia black. Hind- 

 wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black, the hair on inner margin 

 mostly ochreous to beyond middle, long towards base. Underside of forewing 

 •with the costal area to beyond the cell and the median nervure golden yellow. 

 Gold Coast, Obuasi (Graham), 3 type. Exp. 16 mill. 



(5) * Episannina modesta. 



Sylphidia modesta Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Lep. Comp. xii. 1. pi. 380. f. 3184 (1916); id, Ic. xiv. 

 p. 349. 

 Cameroons. 



Gen. Tipulamima. 



Type. 



Tipulamima HoU., J.N.T. Ent. Soc. 1. p. 183 (1894) flanfrons 



Macrolarsipodes Le Cerf, Oberth. J^t. Lep. Comp. xiv. p. 338 (1917) . . . tricincta 



Sect. I. Hind tarsi of male fringed with hair above throughout. 



(1) * Tipulamima grandidieri. 



Macrotarsifodes grandidieri Le Cerf, Oberth. J$«. Lip. Comp. xiv. p. 341. pL 479. f. 3951 (1917). 

 Madagascar. 



(2) *t Tipulamima pyrosoma n. sp. 



(J. Head black glossed with metalUc blue, the palpi orange, the antennae 

 orange -scarlet above towards tips, the neck with scarlet ring ; thorax black- 

 brown, the tegulae and patagia edged with scarlet, abdomen with the four basal 

 segments black -brown above, the terminal segments and ventral surface scarlet ; 

 pectus and legs scarlet, the hind tarsi black glossed with blue, the 1st joint 

 scarlet below except at extremity, and the hairs of the fringe mostly scarlet. 

 Forewing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black, some scarlet at base ; 

 cilia cupreous brown. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black ; cilia cupreous brown. Underside of both wings with the costa orange 

 to beyond middle. 



Br. E. Africa, Kilindini (Lcgros), type S in Coll. Rothschild. Exf. 28 mill, 



(3) Tipulamima flammipes. 



t Macrotarsipus flammipes Hmpsn., A.M.N.H. (8) vi. p. 153 (1910). 

 Uganda. 



(4) * Tipulamima opalimargo. 

 8t»ia opalimargo Le Cerf, Bvil. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1913. p. 167. fig. 

 BTadagascar, 



