350 Dr. 0. P. Alexander on African Crane-fliea 



Pseudolhnnophila cinctifemur , sp. n. 



Head pale yellowish grey ; antennae with tlie first flagellar 

 segment light yellow ; niesonotal praescutum brownish 

 yellow with an oblique lateral brown stripe; pleura silvery- 

 grey with two narrow, i)rown, longitudinal stripes; legs 

 light yellow, the femora with a very nai'row, dark brown 

 subterininal ring ; wings grey^ spotted with pale brown ; 

 cell Ml small ; abdomen dark brown, the sternites more 

 yellowish. 



Female. — Length about 85 ram. ; wing 7"3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the first 

 segment brownish yellow, sparsely pollinose ; second seg- 

 ment yellowish brown, the tips dark brown ; first flagellar 

 segment small, subglobniar, light yellow ; remaining 

 flagellar segments dark brown, the distal segments consider- 

 ably elongated. Head pale yellowish grey, the occiput 

 paler. 



Pronotnm conspicuous, pale brownish yelloAv, the anterior 

 margin concave. Mesonotal praescutum rather bright 

 brownish yellow, with a capillary dark brown median line ; 

 cephalic and lateral margins of the sclerite narrow.'y dark 

 brown, the latter near the wing-root sending a broad brown 

 stripe obliquely cephalad towards the dorso-median line, the 

 two enclosing between them a humeral yellowisii area of a 

 rectangular form with the pseudosutural foveas at about 

 mid-length ; scutum brown, the scutal lobes darker bi'own ; 

 scutellum and postnotuui pale brow'uish grey, the latter with 

 an indisiinct capillary biown median line. Pleura in- 

 distinctly pale grey-prninose with two short, longitudinal, 

 brown lines, one on the mesepisternum, the other near the 

 dorsal limits of the nifsosternum ; d()rso-i)leural membrane 

 likewise darkened ; a silvery-giey area on the sides of the 

 postnotum, in front of the halteres. Mesosternum pale. 

 Halteres light yellow. Legs with the coxaj light yellow, 

 the extreme tips a little darker ; trochanters dull yellovv ; 

 femora light yellow, a short distance (0 9-l'0 mm.) before 

 the tips with a very narrow (0'3 mm.) diirk brown ring; 

 remainder of the legs ligiit yellow, only the distal tarsal 

 segments daik in-own. Wings grey, spotted with pale brown 

 along the veins ; in the costal cell a few darker brown spots 

 and dots, the more conspicuous at the arculus, tip of Sci, 

 and tip of Ry ; the largest of the pale brown areas occur at 

 the origin of Rs, at the stigma, along the cord and outer end 

 of cell 1*/ M^ and at the ends of the longitudinal veins ; a 



