The Crane-flies of South Africa {Diptera, Tipulidae). 145 
The female is similar to the male, but in this latter sex Sc^ is about 
three to four times the length of Sc.. The whole body in the living 
insect is undoubtedly strongly greenish, but this colour is lost in 
specimens that are pinned for many years. 
Hahitat. — South Africa. 
Holotype, <? , Umvoti, Natal (H. Fry). 
Allotype, 9 , Stella Bush, near Durban, October 17th, 1915 (Marie y) 
Type in the South African Museum. 
The genus Libnotes is Oriental in its distribution, and this is the 
first African species to be described. 
Tribe ANTOCHINF. 
Gen. RHAMPHIDIA, Meigen. 
1830. Syst. Beschr., vol. 6, p. 281. 
Rhamphidia capensis, sp. n. 
Thorax Ijlack, the praescutum with a yellowish brown median 
stripe that is indistinct behind and is split by a narrow black vitta ; 
wings spotted. 
Male. — Length 9-5 mm. ; wing 9-2 mm. 
Rostrum slender, elongated, half again as long as the head, black ; 
palpi ])lack. Antennae rather short, first segment dark brown, 
second segment dark brown basally, bright yellow apically ; basal 
flagellar segments pale at the base, darkened at the tip; terminal 
flagellar segments uniformly dark brown. Front greyish; vertex 
comparatively narrow, dark brown ; occiput similar. 
Thorax gibbous. Pronotum dull yellow. Mesonotal praescutum 
black ; a yellowish-brown median stripe, indistinct behind, split by 
a narrow black median vitta; lateral stripes yellow, broad, distinct 
and well-defined ; area around the pseudosutural and transverse 
sutures yellowish ; scutum yellow, the lobes black ; scutellum and 
postnotum l)lack or dark brown. Pleura dark brownish black. 
Halteres light yellow. Legs with the coxae dull yellow, the outer 
faces infuscated, darkest on the middle coxae ; trochanters yellow ; 
femora yellow, passing into brown toward the tip, the apex narrowly 
blackened ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings light grey, the costal 
cells and cell 2nd B^ light yellow; veins dark brown ; brown markings 
as follows: The stigma, base of vein M, origin of Bs, mid-distance 
between the last two, along the cord and outer end of cell \st Mo 
