The Crane-flies of South Africa (Diptera, Tii>uJidae). 175 
geuae, more saturated, orange-yellow, ou the vertex and occii)ut ; 
occipital mark not apparent. 
Pronotum brownish-orange. Mesonotal praescutum In-owui-sh- 
yellow with three shiny black or brownish-black stripes that an; nearly 
confluent ; middle stripe broadest in front, narrowed to an indistinct 
point behind, indistinctly split by a reddish line; anterior ends of the 
lateral stripes capped by an opaque black mark ; scutum brown with 
the lobes darker; scutellum and postnotum In-ownish-yellow, the latter 
more brightened. Pleura marked with yellow and reddish-brown. 
Halteres light l^rown, the knobs darker broM-n. Legs with the coxae 
yellowish-brown provided with numerous long yellow hairs ; tro- 
chanters dull yellow ; femora dull brownish-yellow, narrowly tipped 
with dark brown ; tibiae yellowish-brown, darkened at their apices ; 
tarsi broken. Wings with a strong brownish-yellow tinge, the costal 
cell very little brighter ; stigma oval, dark brown ; apex of the wings 
and vein Cv a little inf uscated ; a })road seam along the basal deflection 
of -R4 + ft and r-m. Venation (Plate XII, fig. 36), Bs short, oblique; 
cell ill, sessile ; fusion of Cu^ with ill before the fork of the latter vein. 
Abdominal tergites dull lirownish-yellow, the lateral margins of the 
segments l:)roadly blackish ; on the sixth to eighth segments broader 
and including the caudal margins of the segments ; hypopygium 
yellowish ; sternites six and seven and the lateral portions of eight 
black, the remainder orange-yellow. Male hypopygium (Plate XIV, 
fig. 63) with the ninth tergite dull yellow, with the caudal margin 
deeply rounded by a U-shaped notch, the caudal margin chitinised ; 
pleural suture elongate, curved slightly dorsad at its tip ; outer pleural 
appendage not large, the apex not produced, rather blunt. Abdomen 
with rather dense yellow hairs, on the basal segments short and 
appressed, longer toward the tip of the organ, on the eighth sternite 
very conspicuous. 
Habitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, ^ , St. Matthew-'s, King William^s Town District, South- 
east Cape Colony, 1894 (R. Lightfoot). 
Type in the South African Museum. 
Nephrotoma unicingulata, sp. n. 
Antennal flagellum dark l)rown ; head light yellow ; thorax with 
black stripes, scutellum and postnotum pale ; abdomen unmarked on 
the mid-dorsal line, Init with a black subterminal ring ; wings pale 
yellowish with a slight suffusion at the apex and a seam on the l)asal 
deflection of Ri+-^\ extreme apices of cells E- and M^ sparsely 
pubescent. 
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