168 Annals of the South African Museum. 
TiPULA poMPOSA, Bergroth. 
1888. Ent. Tidskrift., vol. 9, p. 139, fig. 4. 
A male from Barberton, Trausvaal, March, 1911 (H. Edwards) ; a 
female from the same station, December, 1911 ; a female from 
M'fongosi, Zululand, March, 1911 (W. E. Jones) ; Bergroth's type 
was from Caft'raria. 
The wing is shown on Plate XII, fig. 30. 
The specimens offer the following measurements : 
Male. — Length 19-5 mm. ; wing 21-8 mm. 
Female. — Length about 27 mm. ; wing 23-8-28-2 mm. ; fore legs, 
femur, 12-8 mm ; tibia 15-4 mm. ; hind legs, femur, 14-4 mm. ; tibia 
18 mm. 
Male hypopygium (Plate XIII, fig. 52) with the sclerites of the ninth 
segment fused into a ring that is continuous except on the mid-ventral 
line beneath ; pleural suture distinct but incomplete, slightly curved 
at the end. Ninth tergite (Plate XIV, fig. 60) broad, the caudal margin 
produced medially into a slender lobe whose tip is truncated with a 
U-shaped notch ; this lobe is concave dorsally, the lateral margins 
being slightly elevated, the caudal margin with numerous chitinised 
points which continue back on the dorsal surface of the lobe for 
about half its length : Pleural appendages two, the outer appendage 
slightly elongate-oval, the inner appendage more rounded-oval with 
cephalad-projecting arms. Sternal region profoundly incised on the 
mid-ventral line, the adjacent edges barely contiguous. 
TiPULA JocosA, sp. n. 
Flagellum of the antennae black ; head chestnut-brown with a 
median black stripe ; thoracic stripes dull yellow, narrowly margined 
with dark brown ; wings greyish subhyaline with sparse brownish 
spots and seams ; cell 1st l/o large and ample. 
Female. — Length about 25 mm. ; wing 19-8 mm. 
Frontal prolongation of the head reddish-brown with ))lack dorsal 
and lateral lines, elongated, the nasus long and slender; palpi lilack, 
the bases and apices of the first two segments dull yellow, the 
remaining segments broken. Antennae short, the first scapal seg- 
ment dull yellow, l)lackened above toward the tip ; second segment 
brownish-ldack, globular ; flagellar segments elongated, black, with 
elongated bristles. Head chestnut-brown with a well-defined median 
black stripe, the occiput more brownish. 
Mesouotal praescutum dull yellow with four dull yellow stripes 
that are narrowly margined with dark brown ; middle pair of stripes 
