472 On neio or little-known Tipulicla?. 



costal margin and apical half brownish black, the basal halt' 

 ■\vhitish liyuline ; bai^al abdominal segments reddish, the 

 posterior margins black. 



Se.c ? (probably a male). — Wing 14'6 mm. 



Described from an alcoholic specimen. 



Frontal prolongation of head comparatively short, the sides 

 leddish brown, the dorsum narrowly darker; nasiis distinct; 

 palpi dark brown. Antennae daik brown, the flagellar seg- 

 ments more reddish ba.«ally ; th-.' tlMgellum is broken, but 

 detached segments in the vial with the type jiresumably 

 belong to this species ; in these the distal flagellar segments 

 are elongate-oval, slightly constricted basally. Head reddish, 

 darker-coloured between the eyes. 



Thorax uniformly deep black, apj)arpntly shiny in dried 

 specimens. ilalteres black. Legs black, the femora and 

 tibiae slightly paler basally ; legs slender, esi)eeially the tarsi ; 

 claws reddish, the distal half blackened, at about mid-length 

 with a small, acute, ventral tooth. All of the legs arc 

 detached in the vial, and but few still remain. Wings with 

 the costal region and the apical half of the wing? black, the 

 basal half conspicuously and abruptly whitish hyaline; the 

 dark apex includes all of the colls beyond the cord as well as 

 the outer ends of cells R, J/, Cn, and 1st A ; stigma small, 

 dark brownish black ; veins dark hrown. Wings broad. 



Abdomen with the first segment black ; second segment 

 reddish, the caudal maigin narrowly blackened ; third segment 

 reddish basall}', the apex of the abdomen broken beyond this 

 point. 



J/(ib. French Congo. 



JJi)litype, sex c? ?> Lambar^ne, Ogoway R., 1911 {R. EUen- 

 herger). 



'i'ype in the collection of the Paris Museum. 



'I Ins beautiful crane-fly is readily told front all described 

 African Tipulina; by the biaulilully dimidiate wings. The 

 claws bear a small, acute, ventral tooth that is oidy visible 

 when the foot is viewed from the side. The piesence of this 

 tooth would indicate that this fly is a male. This interesting 

 species is named in honour of its collector. 



