neio or Uttle-known Tipulidje. 471 



Hah. Eastein Transvaal. 



Ilohtypp, (J 5 '' Lot 30, De Kaap Block B," near Kaap- 

 niiiiden, October 8, 1910 (//. K. Mnnro). 



It is with great pleasure that this interesting new species 

 is dedicated to its discoverer, Mr. II. K. Munro. 



T rente pohlia (Trentepohlia) aurantia, sp. n. 



Generally similar to T. speiseri ; mesonotal prnascntum 

 light orange-yellow, with a delicate reddish-brown median 

 line; legs yellow; posterior tibias with two strong black 

 bristles before the tip ; abdomen yellowish brown. 



Mah. — Length 7"6 mm. ; wing 7 mm. 



Female. — Length 8*8 mm. 



Described from alcoholic specimens. 



Rostrum and palpi pale brownish yellow. Antennse with 

 the scape light brown ; flagelhim broken. Head brownish. 



Mesonotal prrescutum light orange-yellow, with a delicate 

 reddish-brown median line, tiie lateral margins behind the 

 pseudo-sutural fovece narrowly infuscated ; scutal lobes 

 reddish brown, the median area and the scutellum pale ; 

 postnotum yellowish brown. Pleura brown, darker on the 

 sternum. Ilalteres pale, the knobs white. Legs with the 

 coxae yellow ; trochanters dull yellow ; femora and tibioe 

 yellow, the tips not darkened ; tarsi broken ; posterior femora 

 with a series of six or seven short blackened spinules at the 

 base ; tibite vvith two widely separated black bristles before 

 the tip. Wings subhyaline, the costal margin strongly 

 yellowish, the anal cells dusky grey ; a rather heavy brown 

 pattern, somewhat as in T. speiseri, but more restricted ; 

 the blotch at the origin of lis is entirely solid, but compara- 

 tively small ; the apical mark includes only the veins, the 

 centre of cell i?2 yellowish subhyaline; vein Cu seamed with 

 darker. 



Abdomen yellowish brown, the apical segments darkened. 



I/ah. lleiinioii. 



Holutype, cJ, 1903 (Blancliard) . 



AUolopohipo, ? . 



Type in the collection of the Paris Museum. 



Tliis species is, perhaps, closest to T. speiseri, Edwards, 

 from which it is told by the bright colour of the mesonotum 

 and the different wing-pattern. 



Tipula ellenher</eri, sp. n. 

 Head indistinctly reddish ; thorax black | wings with the 



