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Sect. II. Hind tarsi of male not fringed with hair above. 



(5) * Tipulamima flavifrons. 

 t Tipuiamima flavifroas HoU., JJf.Y. Ent. Soc. i. p. 183 (1894) ?. 

 Gaboon. 



(6) * Tipulamima haugi. 



Macrotarsipodes Uugi Le Cerf, Oberth. £t. Up. Comp. xiv. p. 343. pi. 479. ff. 3952 3 (1917). 

 Gaboon. 



(7) t Tipulamima nigriceps n. sp. 



?. Head black glossed with blue, the palpi orange-yellow with a few black 

 scales at tips ; thorax orange-yellow mixed with some black ; abdomen black 

 glossed with metallic blue ; pectus, femora, and fore and mid tibiae orange-yellow, 

 the tarsi black, the hind tibiae and tarsi black glossed with blue, the former with 

 some orange-yellow below towards base ; ventral surface of abdomen with yellow 

 patches on three basal segments. Forewing uniform black suffused with brilliant 

 metallic blue. Hindwing with the interspaces to end of cell hyaUne, and with 

 elongate hyaline spots beyond the cell above veins 5 and 4, and a slight mark 

 above base of vein 2, the veins and a discoidal bar black ; the rest of wing black, 

 suffused with deep purple to vein 3, then with brilliant metallic blue, the dark 

 area narrowing to tornus. 



Sierra Leone, Panguma (Simpson), 1 ? type. Exf. 26 mill. 



(8) * ? Tipulamima festiva. 

 iSe«»o festiva Beutenm., J.N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 170 (1899). 

 Gaboon. 



(9) Tipulamima sophax. 

 t Acgeria sophax Druce, A.M.N.B. (7) iv. p. 203 (1899). 



The female has no orange-scarlet on the abdomen, but at sides of pectus and 

 base of forewing only. 



Uganda ; Br. C. Africa ; Lo'tiren9o ntarqnes ; S. Khodesia. 



(10) Tipulamima sexualis. 



t Macrotarsipus sexualis Hmpsn., A.M.N.H. (8) vi. p. 152 (1910). 



Macroiarsipodes sexualis var. Walerloti Le Cerf, Oberth. M. Up. Comp. xiv. p. 341.p 1. 479. f. 3954 

 (1917). 

 S. ITigeria ; Dahomey ; Br. C. Africa. 



(11) *? Tipulamima malimba. 



Sesia malimba Beutenm,, J.N.T. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 172 (1899). 

 Gaboon. 



(12) Tipulamima tricincta. 



Macroiarsipodes tricincfus Le Cerf, Oberth. £l. Up. Comp. xii. i. pi. 380. f. 3182 (1916) ; id. I.e. 

 xiv. p. 341. 

 Znlnland ; Natal. 



