The Crane-Jiies of South Africa {lJlj>tem, T'tindidae). 155 
Tkibe LlMNOPHILINl. 
Gen. LIMNOPHILA, Matuiuart. 
1834. Suit, a Buftou, vol. 1, p. 95. 
LiMNOPHILA TRANSVAALICA, sp. 11. 
Auteuiiae elongate ; head dark grey : thorax and abdomen orange- 
yellow ; wings yellowish without markings. 
Female. — Length 10-6 mm. ; wing 11-3 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi brown. Antennae with the first segment 
elongated, light brown with a pale liloom ; second segment brown ; 
flagellar segments elongate-cylindrical, black, with sparse pale hairs 
and strong bristles near mid-length of the segments. Head prominent, 
subtriaugular, the eyes being large and semiprotulierent ; space be- 
tween the eyes rather narrowed ; anterior portion of the vertex with a 
pale grey bloom, remainder of the head dark grey, passing into brownish 
on the occiput ; several prominent bristles on the vertex along the inner 
margin of the eye and another group on the sides of the occiput. 
Thorax dull l)rownish-yellow to orange without distinct darker 
markings. Pleura more yellowish. Halteres light yellow at the 
base passing into brown toward and on the knob. Legs with the 
coxae and trochanters light yellow ; femora ])rowii, brighter basally ; 
tibiae dark brown basally, the remainder broken. Wings with a 
strong yellowish tinge, the stigma indistinct, pale brown ; costa dark 
brown ; remaining veins yellowish-brown. Venation (Plate XI, fig. 19), 
Sc long ending beyond the fork of Rs ; cross-vein r at the tip of Ej ; 
basal deflection of Cu^ beyond the middle of cell 1st Mo- 
Abdominal tergites brownish-yellow, the eighth and ninth segments 
black ; sternites reddish-yellow ; ovipositor yellowish, the elongate 
acicular tergal valves directed strongly upward at the tip. 
Habitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, ? , Barberton, Transvaal, Novemlier, 1911 (H. Edwards). 
Type in the South African Museum. 
The structure of the female antennae indicates an elongate organ in 
the male sex. 
LiMNOPHILA FRUGI, BergTOth. 
1888. Ent. Tidskrift, vol. 9, pp. 137, 138. 
Two specimens from Natal, a male, Grillets, September, 1915 
(Marley), and a specimen of uncertain sex from Krantz Kloof, 
February, 1915 (Marley). 
