500 — 



Undescribed CRàyE-FiiES i.\ tue Paris Muséum [Tiviudxk. Dipirba) 



Af^ican Species, Part II 



(Continued) , 

 DY Charles P. Alexander , , 

 Ph.D.,Urbana,Ill.,U.S.A. 



Sl'BFAMILY tipllixae. 



Tribe TIPULINI. 



Nephrotoma madagascariensis (Euderlein). 



1912. Pacliyirhiita madagascariensis Enderleîn ; Zool. Julub., Sijst., vol. Sa, 

 pt. 1, p. 17-18. 



Spécimens in llie collection fi'om llie Forêt d'Andrangoloaka, Imerina, 

 Madagascar, collected in 1891 (A. Grandidier) and olhers coUected in llie 

 Island by Camboue in 189/1. 



Tbe fcmale sex lias uever beeu described and is hère made the allotypo. 



AUotijpe, 9. — Lenglli. 16 mm.; wing, i5 mm. 



Similar to llie maie, differiug as foUows : Size larger; anlennae sborler, 

 light yellow, Avith only llie outermost segmenls darker colored ; shiny arca 

 on ihe occipnt very indislincl, being alniosi concolorous wilh llie verlex; 

 pleura of Ihe ihorax indisliuclly striped longiludinally wilh reddish on a 

 yellow ground; sligma pale brown, scarcely darker ihan ihe saturated 

 ground-color; a whilish siibhyaliue spol before ihe sligma in cell i si Ri; 

 cell Ml short-peliolate ; ovipositor wilh the valves slender. 



Ailotype, 9, Madagascar (P. Camboue), No. 70-1894. 



AUotype in the Colleclion of the Paris Muséum. 



Nephrotoma flavonigra iiov. sp. 



General coloralion black, llie last Iwo segmenls of ihe palpi, anlennae, 

 anlerior part of llie verle>i, pronolum, haltères and segments two lo four 



MlISÉOM. — ^ XXVI. 3â 



