164 Annah of the South African Museum,. 
quart) ; Eeunion (Loew) ; Madagascar (Bigot) ; Caffraria (Bergroth) ; 
Kilimandjaro (Speiser). 
The following records are contained in the material at hand : 
9, Natal, Krantz Kloof, February, 1916 (Marley), bearing the 
number 852. 
(J, Zululand, M'fougosi, February, 1912 (W. E. Jones). 
9 , Southern Rhodesia, Que Que (Bultitude) ; 9 , Salisbury, 
May 12th, 1914. 
The specimens give the following measurements : 
Male. — Length 17 mm. ; wing 20-5 mm. ; middle leg, femur 13-3 
mm. ; tibia 13-8 mm. ; hind leg, femur 13-8 mm. ; tibia 15 mm. 
Female. — Length 24 mm. ; wing 21 mm. 
The wing is shown on Plate XI, fig. 27. 
The male hypopygium has the ninth tergite (Plate XIV, fig. 57) 
elongate, slightly narrowed toward the tip, deeply split by a narrow 
V-shaped notch, the adjacent lobes slender, rounded at their tips ; 
the dorsal surface with an abundance of delicate appressed hairs. 
Gen. TIPULA, Linnaeus. 
1758. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 585. 
TiPULA CHIONOIDES, Sp. U. 
Subapterous, at least in the female sex ; nasus bifid at the apex ; 
coloration dark brown ; legs short. 
Female. — Length 15 mm. ; wing -9 mm. ; fore legs, femur 37 mm. ; 
tibia 4-2 mm.; tarsus 4-6 mm.; hind legs, femur 5-5 mm.; tibia 
6-1 mm. ; tarsus about G'5 mm. 
Frontal prolongation of the head rather elongate, dark brown, the 
apex deeply bifid by a U-shaped notch (Plate XIII, fig. 44), producing 
two nasiiorm projections, each of which is armed with numerous 
strong bristles; palpi short, dark brown, the terminal segment not 
elongated. Antennae with the two basal segments dark brown, the 
flagellar segments dull yellowish ; first scapal segment elongate- 
cylindrical ; the second short-globular ; flagellar segments short- 
cylindrical. Head dark brown with a strong median tubercle on the 
vertex just behind the antennal bases. 
Thorax dark brown with a sparse yellowish })olleu, l)ut with(^ut 
distinct stripes ; pleura dark brown with a sparse yellowish- brown 
bloom. Halteres with the knob elongated, dark brown throughout. 
Legs with the coxae powerful, elongate, dark brown ; trochanters 
similar in colour; femora very short, especially the anterior pair, 
. incrassate, dark brown ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings very 
