The Crane-flies of SoiifJi Africa (Diptera, Tipv/idaf). 169 
narrowly separated behind, but conHuent in fi-ont, where th(; y^^How 
of the stripes is darkened, more greyish ; lateral margin of the sclerites 
black, narrowed out in front and not continuous over the niid-line ; 
scutum dull yellow, the median area and posterior portions of the 
lobes blackish; scutellum dull brownish-yellow, darkened behind; 
postnotum yellow, l)roadly dark brown medially. Pleura discoloured, 
apparently dull yellow with blackish markings. Halteres dark brown, 
the knol) light yellow. Legs with the coxae and trochanters pale; 
femora brownish-yellow, the tips broadly black, a little l)rightened 
just before the tips ; tibiae yellowish-brown, the tips indistinctly and 
narrowly brown; tarsi dark l)rown. Wings greyisli subhyaline, the 
costal cell light yellow ; apex of the wing greyish in cells Ro, E.^, and 
base of Rr, ; stigma dark brown ; dark brown seams along the cord 
and the veins surrounding cell 1.?^ Mo ; a brown spot at the base of 
the wing and a brown seam along the base of vein Cn and along the 
forks of this vein ; a large hyaline area in cell AI along vein Cii ; 
veins dark brown ; a yellow area at the base of 3f and C'/. and a 
smaller area just l)efore the stigma. Venation (Plate XII, fig. 31), 
Rs very short, R.^ not arcuated, as in Ctevicroscelis ; cells \st M., and 
3Iy large and full ; petiole of cell ilfj not as long as the liasal deflection 
of Chj ; fusion of Cii-^ with M.^ subequal to the r-in cross-vein. 
Abdominal tergites pale yellowish-l>rown, the basal third of the 
intermediate segments yellow ; sternites paler l)asally, the apical 
sclerites darker. 
Habitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, $ , Cape Town, Caj^e of Good Hope (P. C. Keytel ). 
Type in the South African Museum. 
TiPULA CORONATA, Sp. U. 
Antennae with the l)asal four or five flagellar segments much 
larger than the slender apical segments ; coloration dark grey with 
a sparse vellowish pollen ; wings brownish-grey with the stigma 
brown ; male liypopygium v.ith the ninth tergite having the caudal 
margin with an acute median notch. 
Male. — Length 8-87 mm. ; wing 9-5-11-4 mm. 
Frontal prolongation of the head dark brown, the dorsal half 
abruptlv yellowish, nasus prominent ; palpi shoi"t, dark brown. 
Antennae dark brown, the scape a little paler and with a s])arse 
greyish bloom ; first four segments of the flagellum enlarged, liut 
gradually smaller than one another, the terminal seven segments of 
the flagellum cylindrical, slender, approximately subec^ual in length 
and more vellowish than the basal flagellar segments. Head clear 
