neio or litth-hioion Tipuliilae. 57 



llic ej-es, more yellowish on the front and the occipital 

 ret^ion. 



Pronotum yellow. Mesonotiim dark brown ; tho pre- 

 sciitum broadly margined with dull yellow. Pleura dull 

 yellow. Halteres rather short, dark brown, the extreme base 

 more yellowish. Leo^s with the cox?o yellow, the foro coxse 

 a little darker ; trochanters dull yellow ; femora dark brown, 

 the extreme bases a little paler, the tips white, broadest on 

 the fore femora; tibige white, with a relatively narrow 

 (o mm.) black subbasal band, the white apex occupying the 

 aj)ical half or more of the segment ; tarsi white, a patch of 

 l»airs at the base of the middle and hind metatarsi and the 

 tips of the tarsi more yellowish. The white femoral apex 

 is a trifle broader than the tibial base on the fore legs ; the 

 tibial base is much broader than the femoral tip on the middle 

 and hind legs. The legs are armed in both sexes; the tore 

 femora have three long erect bristles, with one or more 

 additional smaller setae in a group near the base ; the middle 

 and hind femora each bears a row of some eight to ten small 

 subequidistant bristles near the base; femora with several 

 long setse at apex, these a little more slender on the fore 

 femora. Middle and hind metatarsi on the inner face at the 

 base with a longitudinal row of conspicuous orange hairs, 

 these more distinct on the posterior metatarsi. Wings 

 greyish subhyaline, the costal cell more yellow, the subcostal 

 cell more brownish ; stigma narrow, oval, brown ; extreme 

 tip of the wing indistinctly darker ; veins brownish black ; 

 the cord and vein C'u very narrowly and indistinctly seamed 

 with brownish. Venation: r long, more than twice the 

 length of i?2+3 between it and the fork of the latter; basal 

 deflection of il/i+g short, usually less than m ; outer 

 deflection of .1/3 evenly arcuated, long, the inner end of cell 

 M^ lyii'g fai' pioximad of colls R^ and il/j ; basal deflection 

 of Cui at or close to the fork of M ', fusion of Cu^ and \st A 

 slight. A group of two or three long curved setoe on the 

 caudal margin of the wing-petiole. 



Al)dominal tergites dark brown, the basal segment paler 

 laterally ; stcrnites yellowish. 



IJab. West Africa. 



Ilulotype, St L'dodorf, Cameroun, January 16, 1919 {J. A, 

 Ixeis). 



Allotoj'0()/pe, ? , January 15, 1019. 



raratopotypes, 200 S ? , January 9-1 G, 1919. 



T.fiagillinia, Westw., the type of the subgemis J7o;i(/o»}(t, 

 is very insuRiciently described by Westwood. The insect is 



