new or little-known Tipulidge. -407 



a structure that resembles the head and beak of a crested 

 bird ; gonapophyses deeply bifid. 



Male. — Len2:tli about 5 mm. ; winq 4'3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Aufennse short, thescapal 

 segments brownish yellow; flagellum dark brown, verticils 

 only moderately elongated. Vertex brownish grey, broadly 

 whitish adjoining the inner margins of the eyes ; eyes of the 

 male very large as in this group {ptringueyi group) of species, 

 broadly contiguous beneath. 



Mesonotum shiny dark brown, the prsescutum with the 

 three usual stripes confluent, the humeral region and lateral 

 margins a little paler yellowish brown. Pleura dark brown. 

 Halteres brown, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the cox» 

 and trochanters brown ; remainder of the legs light yellow, 

 the distal three tarsal segments and the tips of the others 

 dark brown. Wings pale brown, sparsely marked with dull 

 yellow ; the costal and subcostal cells are light yellow ; the 

 stigma dark brown, elongate-oval, and very distinct ; the 

 cells proximad of tiie cord are hirgely pale brown, those 

 distad of the cord dull yellow, the veins broadly seamed with 

 brown ; the cord is narrowly margined with yellow. Vena- 

 tion as in E. carissima, but the deflection of Cui is more 

 perpendicular. 



Abdomen dark brown. Male hypopygium very distinct 

 from either E. p^ringueyi or E. carissima ; outer appendage 

 slender, as in carissima ; inner appendage with a short, 

 twisted stem that is inserted in the elongated, transverse head 

 near the middle of its length ; this head somewhat resembles 

 the head and beak of a bird with a long, curved crest ; of 

 this structure, the compressed, obliquely truncated beak is 

 directed laterad ; the curved crest is directed proxinuid and 

 ceplialad, covered with numerous short erect sette. Gona- 

 pO[)hyses deeply bitid, the proximal arm longest, the tips 

 acute and blackened, subdecussate with their fellow of the 

 opposite side ; the lateral arm is a little shorter, largely 

 blackened, suddenly narrowed into the short, acute tip. 



1 1 ah. Eastern Transvaal. 



Uolutijpe, c? , " Lot 30, De Kaap Block V>," near Kaa[i- 

 muiden, October 9, 1911) (//. K. Munro). 



Erioptera nigrolatera brevipilosuj subsp. n. 



Female. — Wing 5-5'l mm. 



Generally similar to typical nigrohderu, Alexander (Nyasa- 

 lanil), differing as fallows : — '■ 



Legs without the conspicuous erect pubescence found in 



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