The Crane- flies of South Africa (Dipt era, Tipulidae). 167 
verticils. Head deep browuish-orange without distinct darker 
markiugs. 
Mesonotal praescutum dull orange- yellow with four stripes that are 
mottled orange and dark ])rown, the elongate middle pair almost con- 
tinuous along the median line, the lateral stripes lying very close to the 
central pair ; scutum light yellow with a greenish tinge, each lobe with 
two dark marks, the larger one lying caudally and nearer the median 
line ; scutellum and postnotum dull yellow, the latter with a strong 
greenish tinge. Pleura clear light yellow, unmarked. Halteres 
dark brown. Legs with the coxae and trochanters light yellow ; 
femora yellowish-l)rown, the tips darker In-own ; tibiae light 1)rown, 
the tips narrowly darker brown ; tarsi dark brown. Wings with a 
yellowish -grey tinge, the costal region and the stigma yellowish ; veins 
dark In-own. Venation (Plate XII, fig. 29), Bs short, straight, oblirjue ; 
cells -Bo very small. 
Abdomen with the basal segments light yellow, su])-V)asal segments 
dull yellow, indistinctly and narrowly trivittate with dark In-own, the 
segments soon passing into a more uniform Ijrowuish. Male hypopy- 
giuni (Plate XIII, fig. 53) with thesclerites of the ninth segment fused 
into a continuous ring except on the mid-ventral line of the sternite. 
Eegion of the ninth tergite (Plate XIV, fig. 59) with the median area 
slightly projecting caudad and bearing on either side of the median 
line a flattened subacute lolie, the space between these horns U-shaped 
and a little less than the diameter of a single horn ; the horns divergent. 
Outer pleural appendage a broad flattened pale lobe that is obliquely 
truncated at the apex, and the outer face with rather sparse sub- 
appressed black In-istles ; inner pleural appendage more complex, 
consisting of a long finger-like lol)e that projects cephalad, the caudal 
edge w^ith a fringe of long yellow bristles. Eegion of the ninth sternite 
extensive, carinate on the mid-ventral line, the edges closely approxi- 
mated. Eighth sternite unarmed. 
The female has the thoracic stripes indistinct, the abdominal segments 
yellownsh-brown, indistinctly and narrowly trivittate with darker brown ; 
ovipositor with the tergal valves very long and slender, the apices 
slightly expanded ; sternal valves short, deep, the tips somewhat 
rounded to subacute. 
Habitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, (^ , Victoria Falls, Ehodesia, July, 1911 (L. Perin- 
guey). 
Allotype, 9 , Kafue Eiver, Northern Ehodesia, 1906 (J. Drury). 
Paratype, ?, Krantz Kloof, Natal, January, 1915 (Marley). 
Type in the South African Museum. 
