new or little-known Tipulide. 349 
Tipula mashona, sp. n. 
Belongs to the oleracea group; close to TJ. soror, 
Wiedemann ; antennal flagellum dark brown; general 
coloration grey, the prescutum with three pale stripes that 
are margined with dark brown, the median stripe split by 
a dark brown line. 
Male.—Length about 21 mm.; wing 20 mm. 
Rostrum light grey above, the sides brown; nasus with 
long yellow hairs. Antenne with the first and second 
segments pale brownish yellow, sparsely grey-pruinose, 
third segment yellowish brown, darker at the end, remaining 
segments dark brown, the basal swelling moderately 
prominent. Head light grey. 
Mesonotal prescutum grey with three indistinct greyish 
stripes that are distinctly margined with dark brown, the 
median stripe split by a double capillary brown line; lateral 
stripes with the brown margins becoming obliterated on the 
lateral side ; scutum grey, the lobes with brown markings 
anteriorly ; remainder of the notum light grey. Pleura 
pale, light grey-pruinose, the dorso-pleural membranes dul 
buffy yellow. Halteres long, the knobs dark brown. Legs 
with the coxz yellowish, the mesocoxe and metacoxe 
sparsely grey-pruinose ; trochanters dull brownish yellow ; 
femora brown, the tips darker; tibiz pale brown, the tips 
narrowly darkened ; tarsi long, dark brown, the base of the 
‘metatarsi a little paler. Wings pale grey, the costal region 
brown, including cells C, Sc, 1st R,, and 2nd R, ; a broad 
subhyaline streak, including most of cell R, the anterior 
portion of M, the base of R; and almost all of R;; a brown 
seam along Cu. Venation: cell R, small, narrow at the 
base, R; almost in alignment with R,, 3. 
Abdomen discoloured ; the tergites apparently dark brown 
with a distinct blackish sublateral mark on either side, the 
lateral margins broadly pale. Hypopygium pale. Male 
hypopygium with the ninth tergite about as in 7. svror, 
broad and flattened; the caudal margin with a broad median 
lobe that is feebly notched medially, the lobes roughened 
and with the outer angle a little produced, smooth ; viewed 
caudally, each of these lobes is seen to be produced ventrally 
into a flattened blade whose caudal margin is densely covered 
with blackened spinules. The pleural appendages are 
almost as in J. soror. Ninth sternite strongly carinate, 
the dorsal inner angle with a dense tuft of yellowish hairs 
directed inward. Eighth sternite unarmed. 
flab. Rhodesia. 
