The Oraiie-Jiies of South Africa (Dipteni, Tijndidaf). 173 
mar^iued on each side with black, Ijecomiu^ iudistiuct before the 
transverse suture ; lateral stripes shiny black, slightly out-curved at 
their anterior ends ; scutum dull yellow, the lobes with the proximal 
half black, being caudal prolongations of the lateral praescutal 
stripes ; scutellum and postnotum dull yellow. Pleura light yellow 
with pale reddish blotches, these arranged as two indistinct l)ands, the 
ventral baud occupying the sternum and suffusing all the coxae ; pro- 
pleura brownish ; sides of the postnotum largely brownish-red. Halteres 
brown, stem paler at the base. Legs with the coxae as described al)Ove ; 
trochanters and femora dull yellow, the latter with the tips dark 
brownish-black ; tibiae dark brown ; tarsi broken. Wings with a 
strong brown or yellowish-brown suffusion, the costal cell rich yellowish ; 
stigma pale brown, indistinct ; a l)rowu seam along Cu ; a pale vitreous 
area before the stigma and at the base of cell \sf Mr,. Venation 
(Plate XII, fig. 34), with the point of contact between Cu^ and M.^ 
underneath cell Isiilfoas in the genus Tijmla ; i^s elongated, also as in 
Tipula ; cell My sessile as in Nephrotoma. 
Abdomen rich orange-yellow without dorsal markings, except on the 
fifth to eighth tergite, where there is a rounded blackish median mark ; 
lateral margins of the sclerites darkened ; sternites with a sul)linear 
black median mark on segment five to eight. Male hypopygium 
(Plate XIV, fig. 62) with the caudal margin of the ninth tergite almost 
straight, produced laterally into a subacute shiny tooth, medially with 
an obscure notch ; caudal margin shiny, heavily chitinised, with about 
two small black teeth on each side of this notch ; ninth pleurite nearly 
complete, the pleural suture being very long and straight, running 
back to the eighth segment ; outer pleural appendage elongate, pale, 
rounded at the apex ; ninth sternite profoundly incised medially, the 
lateral angles contiguous. 
Habitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, ^ » South Africa, without exact locality. 
Type in the South African Museum. 
In the venation and the male hypopygium this form closely 
approaches Tijmla and shows the close relationship between this genus 
and Tipula. 
Nephrotoma edwardsi, sp. n. 
Head orange without a distinct occipital mark ; thorax dusky l)rown 
with darker stripes ; abdomen orange-yellow, the apical segments, 
including the hypopygium, blackish ; legs black except at the extreme 
bases of the femora. 
Male. — Length 14-5 mm. ; wing 147 mm. 
