350 Dr. 0. P. Alexander on African Crane-flies 



Pseudolhnnopliila cinctifemur , sp. n. 



Head pale yellowish grey ; antennae with the first flagellar 

 segment light yellow ; mesonotal prsescutum brownish 

 yellow with an oblique lateral brown, stripe ; pleura silvery- 

 grey with two narrow, brown, longitudinal stripes ; legs 

 light yellow, the femora with a very narrow, dark brown 

 subterminal ring ; wings grey, spotted with pale brown ; 

 cell M, small ; abdomen dark brown, the sternites more 

 yellowish. 



Female. — Length about 8"5 mm. ; wing 7*3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennas with the first 

 segment brownish yellow, sparsely pollinose ; second seg- 

 ment yellowish brown, the tips dark brown ; first flagellar 

 segment small, subglobular, light yellow ; remaining 

 flagellar segments dark brown, the distal segments consider- 

 ably elongated. Head pale yellowish grey, the occiput 

 paler. 



Pronotnm conspicuous, pale brownish yellow, the anterior 

 margin concave. Mesonotal prsescutum rather bright 

 brownish yellow, with a capillary dark brown median line ; 

 cephalic and lateral margins of the sclerite narrowly dark 

 brown, the latter near the wing-root sending a broad brown 

 stripe obliquely cephalad towards the dorso-median line, the 

 two enclosing between them a humeral yellowish area of a 

 rectangular form with the pseudosutural foveee at about 

 mid-length ; scutum brown, the scutal lobes darker brown ; 

 scutellum and postnotum pale brownish grey, the latter with 

 an indistinct capillary brown median line. Pleura in- 

 distinctly pale grey-pruinose with two short, longitudinal, 

 brown lines, one on the mesepisternum, the other near the 

 dorsal limits of the niesosternum ; dorso-pleural membrane 

 likewise darkened ; a silvery-grey area on the sides of the 

 postnotum, in front of the halteres. Mesosternum pale. 

 Halteres light yellow. Legs with the coxae light yellow, 

 the extreme tips a little darker; trochanters dull yellow ; 

 femora light yellow, a short distance (0 9-1 '0 mm.) before 

 the tips with a very narrow (03 mm.) dark brown ring; 

 remainder of the legs light yellow, only the distal tarsal 

 segments dark brown. Wings grey, spotted with pale brown 

 along the veins ; in the costal cell a few darker brown spots 

 and dots, the more conspicuous at the arculus, tip of Sc u 

 and tip of i?j ; the largest of the pale brown areas occur at 

 the origin of Rs, at the stigma, along the cord and outer end 

 of cell 1st M 2 and at the ends of the longitudinal veins ; a 



