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new or little-known Tipulide., 307 
indistinctly paler, the tips narrowly but abruptly pale 
yellow ; remainder of the legs brown; claws small, simple 
or nearly so. Wings brownish subhyaline, cell Sc more 
yellowish ; stigma oval, dark brown; cord, outer end of cell 
lst M;, and wing-apex indistinctly seamed with darker ; 
veins dark brown. Venation ; Sc, long, ending before mid- 
length of Rs, Sc, at the tip of Sc; ; Rs moderately elongated ; 
gently arcuated, about twice the length of the deflection of 
Ry.5; 7 at the tip of R,; cell lst JL, pentagonally rectan- 
gular, shorter than vein J; beyond it; m about twice as 
Jong as r-m; basal deflection of Cu, just beyond the fork 
of M; Cu longer than the basal deflection of Cu,. 
Abdominal segments dark brown, the segments conspicu- 
ously ringed caudally with yellowish ; eighth tergite entirely 
yellow. Ovipositor with the tergal valves very short, slender, 
strongly upcurved to the acute tips; sternal valves long, 
straight, compressed, the tips subacute. 
Hab. South Africa. 
Holotype, 2, Shafton Grange, Natal, April 28, 1919 
(A. G. Shaw). 
Type in the collection of the Natal Museum. 
This interesting Dicranomyia is respectfully dedicated to 
its collector, Mr. Alfred G. Shaw. 
Dicranomyia flavopyga, sp. n. 
General coloration obscure yellow; antenne black ; meso- 
notal prescutum with three brown stripes; pleura with a 
broad longitudinal stripe ; wings with a strong grey suffusion; 
stigma brown ; indistinct brown seams along the cord and 
outer end of cell lst M,; Se long, cell lst My closed; Cu, 
and the basal deflection of Cu, subequal; abdomen dark 
brown, the pleurites of the male hypopygium yellow; 
some of the pleural appendages digitiform and highly 
complicated. 
Male—Length about 5:2 mm.; wing 6°8 mm. 
Rostrum brownish yellow, about one-half as long as the 
head; palpi black. Antenne black, the flagellar segments 
oval. Head dull grey. 
Pronotum dark brown, the scutellum light yellow. Meso- 
nota] prescutum dull yellow, with three conspicuous brown 
stripes ; scutum pale, more testaceous behind. Pleura 
brownish yellow with a broad, conspicuous, longitudinal 
stripe. Mesosternum brownish. Halteres pale brown, the 
knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxe and trochanters 
pale yellowish testaceous; remainder of the legs broken. 
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