neto or Iktie-Jcnown Tipulidye. 339 



Male. — Length about 2-8-3 mm. ; wing 3"9-l mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Anteuuiie dark brown, 

 tlie flagellar segments oval, the intirrnediate segments with 

 an indistinct basal pedicel. Head dark brown. 



Mesoiiotum dull brownish yellow, the priescutum without 

 distinct stripes. Pleura somewhat brighter yellow, with 

 a broad brown longitudinal stripe extending from the 

 cervical sclerites to the l)ase of the abdomen, passing 

 imniedi.itcly beneath the base of the halteres. Mesosternuni 

 brownish. Halteres long, light brown, the knobs and the 

 end of the stem darker brown. Legs with the coxre and 

 trochanters dull testaceous yellow ; remainder of the legs 

 broken. Wings with a faint grey tinge, the stigma rounded- 

 oval, brown ; veins dark brown. Venation : Sc long, 

 Sci extending to slightly beyond mid-length of the long 

 sector, Sc.2 at the tip of Sci; r at the tip of Ri, bisecting the 

 stigma; Rs long, more than twice the basal deflection of 

 -^4+6 ; cell \st M<i closed, large, longer than vein M-^ beyond 

 it ; basal deflection of Cu^ just beyond the fork of M. 



Abdomen dark brown. 



llah. West Africa. 



Holotype, ^ , Lonji, about 50 miles north of Kribi, near 

 the Ulou River, Cameroun, altitude about 1000 feet, 

 July 18, 1919. 



"*- Dicrunoniyia fuscopkurn is a tiny fly that is readily told 

 from lelatc'd described species by the size and conspicuously 

 striped thoracic pleura. 



Dicranomyia recedens, sp. n. 



Antennal scape dark brownish black, the ba.>al flagellar 

 segments yellowish, the remainder of the antenme dark 

 brown ; thorax and abdomen dark brownish black ; legs 

 brown, the taisi pale; wings hyaline, the caudal half 

 darkened, the costal margin with six large tlaik brown 

 blotches ; Sc long, r some distance from the lij) ol Yi',. 



Male. — Length 48 mm. ; wing 5 nmi. 



Female. — Length 6 mm.; wing 5"? mm. 



liostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenme with the scape 

 dark i)r(jwiiish black, the basal llajicilar segments yellowish, 

 soon passing into dark br(n\n. Head daik. 



Mesothorax dark brownish black, the types mouldy, 

 without distnict markings on the praescutuni. Halteres 

 black, only the extreme base of the stem j)alei-. Le;is with 

 the coxie ami trochanters blackish ; femora brownish, with 

 an indis.inct pale subtcrmiual ring; tibiie brown, the tips 



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