new or little-known Tipulide. 55 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown, Antenne rather short, 
dark brown, the second scapal segment a little brighter ; the 
first two flagellar segments enlarged and closely approxi- 
mated, ,the third to fifth short-cylindrical, the remaining 
flagellar segments gradually elongated. Head brown, with a 
yellowish pollen. 
Mesonotum dark brown, sparsely pollinose, without stripes. 
Pleura brown. Halteres brown, paler at the base, darkest on 
the knobs. Legs with the coxee brown, the apical portions 
of the middle and hind coxz on the outer face more yellowish ; 
trochanters yellow, with a jet-black spot on the margin, and 
here produced into a sharp tooth as in the genus; legs dark 
brown, the basal portion of the femora more yellowish, this 
narrowest on the fore legs, broadest on the hind legs. Wings 
with a very strong dark brown suffusion, deepest along the 
costal region; the fork from the first anal vein into cell Cu 
and a streak in cell # paler ; veins dark brown. Venation: 
Se ending slightly beyond the fork of the sector; Rs about 
one-fourth longer than the long cell 1sé¢ Jd. 
Abdomen dark brown, the hypopygium a little brighter, 
segments 7 and 8 and the terminal half of segment 6 black. 
Hab. South Africa. 
Holotype, 8, Maritaburg, Natal, 1916 (Dr. Conrad 
Akerman). 
Paratopotype, a badly broken male. 
Type in the collection of the Natal Museum. 
Rhamphidia flavitarsis, sp. n. 
Rostrum longer than the head; mesonotum dark brown, 
almost black above, the pleura dull yellow ; legs dark brown, 
the tarsi yellowish; wings subhyaline, the stigma dark 
brown. 
Male.—Length, excluding rostrum, 8-8°3 mm., rostrum 
about 1 mm. ; wing 8°8 mm. 
Female—Length 11-11'2 mm.; wing 85 mm.; ovi- 
positor, tergal valves, 2°1 mm, 
Rostrum longer than the head, brown above, darkest near 
the apex, more yellowish beneath and on the sides; palpi 
dark brown. Antenne moderately elongated, the scape 
brown, the flagellum dark brown; flagellar segments 
elongate-oval, with long verticils that are longest and most 
conspicuous on the terminal antennal segments. Head dark 
brownish black, 
The long neck is brown. Pronotal scutum brownish 
black ; scutellum light yellow. Mesonotal prescutum dark 
