new or little-known Tipulidae. 467 
a structure that resembles the head and beak of a crested 
bird ; gonapophyses deeply bifid. 
Male. —Length about 5 mm. ; wing 4°3 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne short, the seapal 
segments brownish yellow; flagellum dark brown, verticils 
only moderately elongated. Vertex brownish grey, broadly 
whitish adjoining the inner margins of the eyes ; eyes of the 
male very large as in this group (péringueyi group) of species, 
broadly contiguous beneath. 
Mesonotum shiny dark brown, the prescutum with the 
three usual stripes confluent, the humeral region and lateral 
margins a little paler yellowish brown. Pleura dark brown, 
Halteres brown, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxe 
and trochanters ‘brown ; remainder of the legs light yellow, 
the distal three tarsal segments and the tips of the others 
dark brown. Wings pale brown, sparsely marked with dull 
yellow ; the costal and subcostal cells are light yellow; the 
stigma dark brown, elongate-oval, and very distinct; the 
cells proximad of the cord are largely pale brown, those 
distad of the cord dull yellow, the veins broadly seamed with 
brown ; the cord is narrowly margined with yellow. Vena- 
tion as in EZ. carissima, but the deflection of Cw, is more 
perpendicular. 
Abdomen dark brown. Male hypopygium very distinct 
from either EL. péringueyi or HE. carissima ; outer appendage 
slender, as in carissima; inner appendage with a short, 
twisted stem that is inserted in the elongated, transverse head 
near the middle of its length ; this head somewhat resembles 
the head and beak of a bird with a long, curved crest ; of 
this structure, the compressed, obliquely truncated beak is 
directed laterad ; the curved crest is directed proximad and 
cephalad, covered with numerous short erect sete. Gona- 
pophyses deeply bifid, the proximal arm longest, the tips 
acute and blackened, subdecussate with their fellow of the 
opposite side; the lateral arm is a little shorter, largely 
blackened, suddenly narrowed into the short, acute tip. 
Hab. Eastern Transvaal. 
Flolotype, 8, “ Lot 80, De Kaap Block B,’ near Kaap- 
muiden, October 9, 1919 (Hl. K. Munro). 
Erioptera nigrolatera brevipilosa, subsp. n. 
Female.x—Wing 5-5'1 mm. 
Generally similar to typical negrolater a, Alexander (Nyasa- 
land), differing as follows :— 
Legs without the conspicuous erect ples eee found in 
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