new or Utlle-known Tipulichx}. 341 



Geranomyia (^Geranomyia) mashonica, sp. n. 



General coloration brown, the thoracic pleura ])lumbeous; 

 rostrum yellowish : wings pale subhyaline, the stigma small, 

 rounded-oval, ptile brown, vein Sc long. 



Male. — Length (excluding rostrum) 5 mm.; wing 6*5 mm.; 

 rostrum about 2'3 mm. 



Rostrum moderately elongate, light brownish yellow 

 tliroughout. Antenn&e with the scapal segments pale 

 brown, the flagellum darker brown, oval-cylindrical. Head 

 light grey, the geuie more yellowish. 



JMesonotum plumbeous brown, possibly discoloured, as 

 there is an irrrgular median yellowish area on the prte- 

 scutuin. Pleura dark plumbeous. Hal teres rather short, 

 pale yellow, the knobs scarcely darker. Legs with the coxte 

 dark plumbeous ; trochanters yellowish brown ; remainder 

 of the legs broken. Wings pale yellowish subhyaline ; 

 stigma small, rounded-oval, pale brown ; veins pale. 

 Venation : Sc long, extending to nearly opposite three- 

 fourths the length of Rs, Sc.2 not far from the tip of Scx, 

 Sci alone being a little shorter than m ; r at the tip of Hi ; 

 basal deflectiou of i?4+5 a little less than one-half the long 

 sector ; 7--m short, less than m ; cell \st M2 rather long, the 

 portion of My^o between r-m and m being about equal to or 

 a little longer than that portion beyond m ; basal deflectiou 

 of C'Mi at the fork of M. 



Abdomen reddish yellow, especially the broad posterior 

 mai'gins of tiie tergites. Hypopygium reddish, the ventral 

 pleural appendages long, greatly exceeding the short 

 pleurites ; dorsal appendages relatively small, the tip 

 suddenly narrowed and acute. 



Hub. Uhodesia. 



Hulolype, S ■> Salisbury, Mashoualand (G. A. K. Marshall) . 

 Collector's No. 23. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum. 



Geranomyia mashonica requires comparison only with 

 G. macnlisiiynia (Enderlein) of JNladagascar. The latter 

 is a differently coloured fly with the. stigma dark brown, the 

 basal deflection of R^^^ very short and cell \st M^ small and 

 subquadrate. 



Ceralocheilus jlavirostris, sp. n. 



Rostrum almost as long as the body, light yellow, the 

 extreme base abruptly blackened ; antenna} with the l)asal 



