The Crane-fies of Sovth Africa (Diptera, Tijmlidae). 141 
stripe short, mesosteriial in position. Halteres short, light y^^How, the 
kuob very slightly darkened. Legs with the coxae and trochanters 
dull yellow ; femora dull yellow, the tips broadly but indistinctly 
infuscated ; tibiae yellowish-l)i'owu ; tarsi light ])rown, the three apical 
segments dark l)rown. Wings pale at the extreme bases ; membrane 
pale greyish subhyaline ; veins dark In-own ; no stigma. Venation 
(Plate X, fig. 2, upper right hand corner), Sc short, ending just ))efore 
the origin of Bs ; Sc.^ not distinct ; cross-vein r at the tip of E^ much 
longer than that portion of K^ beyond it ; Bs elongated, about thi-ee 
times the deflection of -B4 + 5 ; cell Is^ M^^ open by the atrophy of in ; 
1I/.5 leaves Cwj at a right angle, strongly arcuated ; basal deflection of 
Cwj at the fork of M. 
Abdominal tergites dark l)rown ; hypopygium pale ; sternites dark 
brown, the segments broadly margined caudally with paler brown. 
Habitat '. — South Africa. 
Holotype, $ , East London, South-east Cape Colony, November, 1915 
(Lightfoot). 
Type in the South African Museum. 
This species is respectfully dedicated to its collector. 
DicRANOMYiA TipuLiPES, Karsch. 
1886. Ent. Nachr., vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 51, 52. 
This fly was described from Puugo-Ndongo, Portuguese West Africa, 
but is now known to be widely distributed over the southern half of 
the African continent and the adjacent islands. The following material 
is in the collection : 
(^ 9 Bergroth's specimens (4, 5) from Stellenbosch, Cape Town, 1887 
(Peringuey). 
cj Cape Town, 1913 (Peringuey), 
(^ Ceres, Cape Colony, April, 1913 (Lightfoot). 
9 Smithfield, Orange River Colony, September, 1910 (Kaunemeyer). 
(^ Barberton, Transvaal, April, 1911 (H. Edwards). 
The position of Sco is not as described by Karsch but is far removed 
from the tip of Sc\, the distance being about equal to the entire radial 
sector. The wing has been well shown by Edwards in his Seychelles 
report and is again figured in Plate X, fig. 3. This insect varies much 
in the intensity of the wing-pattern, fully-coloured individuals having 
C, Sc, and B light yellow with four large black marks along Sc, the 
first at the wing base, the second the largest, the third at Sc^, and the 
fourth at the margin of the sector. Bergroth (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
ser. 8, vol. 91, p. 580, 1913) denies that D. confinis, Bergroth (Wien. 
Entomol. Zeit., vol. 8, p. 116, 1889, n.n. for D. consimilis, Bergroth, 
