new or little-known Tipulide. 339 
Male.—Length about 2°8-3 mm. ; wing 3°9-4 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne dark brown, 
the flagellar segments oval, the intermediate segments with 
an indistinct basal pedicel. Head dark brown. 
Mesonotum dull brownish yellow, the preescutum without 
distinct stripes. Pleura somewhat brighter yellow, with 
a broad brown longitudinal stripe extending from the 
cervical sclerites to the base of the abdomen, passing 
immediately beneath the base of the halteres. Mesosternum 
brownish. Halteres long, light brown, the knobs and the 
end of the stem darker brown. Legs with the coxe and 
trochanters dull testaceous yellow; remainder of the legs 
broken. Wings with a faint grey tinge, the stigma rounded. _ 
oval, brown; veins dark brown. Venation: Se long, 
Sc, extending to slightly beyond mid-length of the long 
sector, Sc, at the tip of Sc,; r at the tip of R,, bisecting the 
stigma; Rs long, more than twice the basal deflection of 
R,,5; cell lst M, closed, large, longer than vein M; beyoud 
it ; basal deflection of Cu, just beyond the fork of M. 
Abdomen dark bfown. 
Hab. West Africa. 
Holotype, 8 , Lonji, about 50 miles north of Kribi, near 
the Ulou River, Cameroun, altitude about 1000 feet, 
July 18, 1919. 
». Dicranomyia fuscopleura is a tiny fly that is readily told 
from related described species by tlie size and conspicuously 
striped thoracic pleura. 
Dicranomyia recedens, sp. n. 
Antennal scape dark brownish black, the basal flagellar 
segments yellowish, the remainder of the antenne dark 
brown ; thorax and abdomen dark brownish biack ; legs 
brown, the tarsi pale; wings hyaline, the caudal half 
darkened, the costal margin with six large dark brown 
blotches ; Sc long, r some distance from the tip of Le,. 
Male.— Length 4°8 mm.; wing 5 mm. 
Female.—Length 6 mm.; wing 5°7 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Anteune with the scape 
dark brownish black, the basal flagellar segments yellowish, 
soon passing into dark brown. Head dark. 
Mesothorax dark brownish black, the types mouldy, 
without distinct markings on the prescutum. Halteres 
black, only the extreme base of the stem paler. Legs with 
the coxz and trochanters blackish ; femora brownish, with 
an indistinct pale subterminal ring; tibize brown, the tips 
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