162 Annals of the South African Museum. 
Habitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, c?, Clairniout, Natal, August. 1915 (Marley). 
Type iu the South African Museum. 
Tkibe TIPULINI. 
Gen. LONaUEIO, Loew. 
1869. Berlin. Entomol. Zeitschr., vol. 13, p. 3. 
LONGURIO MINUSCULUS, sp. n. 
Head ])lack with a o-reyish-hrown bloom ; thorax orange-yellow,, 
unmarked ; abdomen brownish, the basal segments and the hypo- 
pygium yellowish. 
ilfaZe.— Length 8-2-9-6 mm. ; wing 8-8-10-3 mm. 
Frontal prolongation of the head moderate in length, yellowish- 
brown, the mid-dorsal region darker, the nasus present, with elongate 
hairs ; palpi dark brown. Antennae short, the scape yellowish, the 
flagellum dark brownish-black ; first segment as long as the succeeding 
two together; second segment pyrif orm ; first flagellar segment 
enlarged, elongate-pyriform, the remaining segments gradually 
narrowed and more slender ; hairs on the flagellum very short. 
Head black with a greyish-brown bloom, the front yellowish, this 
colour continued on to the vertex along the inner margin of the eyes ; 
ventral sclerites of the head yellowish ; sometimes the occiput is dull 
yellow. 
Thorax orange-yellow without markings, the pleura more yellowish. 
Halteres long and slender, brown, the knob darker. Legs with the 
coxae and trochanters yellow ; femora and tibiae yellow, darkened 
towards their tips ; tarsi dark brown. Wings light grey, the costal 
region yellowish ; stigma small, greyish-yellow ; veins brown, Vena- 
tion (Plate XI, tig. 26), petiole of cell M^ about one-half the length of 
vein M^ alone. 
Abdomen with the basal tergites yellowish, more brown medially ; 
on segments three to eight dark brown, more yellowish sublaterally ; 
sternites dull yellow, the eighth segment brown; hypopygium dull 
yellow. Male hypopygium (Plate XIII, fig. 51) of the typical Longuria 
structure, the ninth tergite (Plate XIV, fig. 56) small, deeply incised by 
a U-shaped notch, the lateral lobes slender, subacute at their tips ; 
the ninth steruo-pleurite moderately elongated, bearing at its apex 
the pleural appendages that are beset by numbers of short black 
spicules ; these appendages in a position of rest lie in the dorsal con- 
cavity of the ninth sterno-pleurite. 
