new or little-known Tipulide. alt 
caudad as a narrow line along the margin of the meso- 
notum to the wing-root. Mesonotal prescutum and scutum 
dark brown; scutellum similar, broadly margined poste- 
riorly with hight yellow; postnotum dark brown. Pleura 
dark brown, sparsely pruinose, with a narrow whitish-yellow 
longitudinal stripe extending from the fore coxve to above 
the base of the hind coxe. MHalteres light yellow, the 
base of the knobs brown. Legs with the bases of the 
coxe dark brown, this including all of the fore coxe, the 
basal half of the mid-coxee, and about the basal quarter 
of the posterior coxe; trochanters dull yellow; femora 
dull yellow with a broad, conspicuous, dark brown ring 
before the tips, this broadest on the hind legs, where it 
is considerably longer than the pale tips, the apices and a 
narrow annulus before this ring clearer yellow than the 
remainder of the femora ; tibiz and tarsi brownish yellow, 
the apical tarsal segments brownish. Wings with a strong 
brownish-grey tinge, cells C, Sc, and most of Sc, and R, 
nearly hyaline, in the latter cell appearing as couspicuous 
areas before and beyond the stigma; a brownish seam 
extending from the concolorous stigma along the cord to 
the fork of M; a dark cloud at the end of R,,3; wing- 
tip in cells £3, R;, and 2nd M, nearly hyaline, this colour 
including the costa at this point; veins dark brown. 
Venation: Se short, ending opposite the origin of fs, Sc, 
at the extreme tip of Sc,, and exactly opposite the origin 
of Rs; Rs moderately long, arcuated, slightly angulated 
at base; cell lst M, closed, the proximal end _ slightly 
narrowed ; basal deflection of Cu, immediately beyond the 
fork of 1 ; costa fringed with conspicuous erect hairs. 
Abdomen dark brown. Male hypopygium with the 
pleurites moderately stout, with three pleural appendages, the 
longest of these chitinized, slender, the apex obliquely trun- 
cated and slightly dilated, provided with a comb of short 
teeth ; the second appendage is a little shorter, produced into 
a short pointed beak, at the base of the beak with a short 
powerful spine surrounded by numerous reddish bristles ; 
the third appendage is the shortest, pale yellow, elongate- 
oval, at the tip produced into a powerful bristle, before 
the tip with several smaller sete. The gonapophyses are 
dark-coloured, fleshy, produced Jaterad into a small acute 
point. What seems to be the ninth tergite is bifid and 
heavily armed with powerful spines and heavy black bristles, 
these shorter at the apices of the lobes. 
Hab. West Africa. 
Holotype, 3 , Efulan, Cameroun, May 7, 1920 (J. A. Reis). 
