174 On 7ieio or little-hwion Tipulirlfe. 



Tipula camerounensis, sp. n. 



General coloration of mesonotum light brown ; pleura 

 wliitish yellow ; mesonotum densely covered with short set-ee ; 

 wings pale grey; stigma dark brown; male liypopygiuru 

 with the sclerites fused into a ring, the median lobe of the 

 ninth tergite narrow, the tip split by a v^baped notch into 

 two flattened lobes. 



Mule. — Length 16"5 mm.; wing 17 mm. ; antenna about 

 5 mm. 



Frontal ])rolongation of the head ferruginous ; palpi daik 

 brown. Antennae of moderate length, scape testaceous, 

 flagellum dark brown. Head ferruginous brown. 



Mesonotum light brown without daiker markings, the 

 surface densely covered with short set£e. Pleura pale 

 whitish yellow, unmarked. Halteres dark brown. Legs 

 with the coxfe and trochanters testaceous ; remainder of legs 

 brown ; claws of male apparently simple. Wings with a 

 uniformly pale grey tinge; cell Sc brownish yellow; an 

 inconspicuous brown seam along r-jn and the basal deflection 

 of R^_^_5 ; stigma narrow, dark brown ; veins dark brown. 

 Venation : Rs short, about as long as the petiole of cell il7, ; 

 cell R^ shorter than R^, the proximal end acute. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the sternitcs more 

 yellowish ; hypopygium brownish yellow. Male hyi)opygium 

 as in this group of species, the sclerites fused into a ring ; 

 ninth tergite with the median lobe produced into a narrow 

 depressed blade, the apex split into two flattened lobes. 



Hab. Cameroun. 



Holotype, S , Elat, 1920 {J. A. Reis). 



Tipula oryx, sp. n.' 



General coloration liver-brown, the pleura yellowish 

 striped longitudinally with dark brown ; mesosternum dark 

 brown ; wings pale grey, the costal and subcostal cells dark 

 brown; abdomen with a brownish-black subterminal ring; 

 male hypopygium with the sclerites of the ninth segment 

 fused into a ring ; median lobe of the ninth tergite narrow, 

 the caudal margin with a U-shaped notch. 



Mule. — Length 21 mm. ; wing 19 mm. ; antenna about 

 10 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head dull rufous, darker 

 laterally ; palpi dark brown. Antennfe very long and 

 slender, if bent backward extending almost to mid-length 



