174 On neiv or little-known Tipulidge. 



Tipula camerounensis, sp. n. 



General coloration of mesonotum light brown ; pleura 

 whitish yellow ; mesonotum densely covered with short setae ; 

 wings pale grey; stigma dark brown; male hypopygium 

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

 ninth tergite narrow, the tip split by a y-shaped notch into 

 two flattened lobes. 



Male. — Length 16'5 mm.; wing 17 mm. ; antenna about 

 5 mm. 



Frontal ])r()longation of the head ferruginous ; [^alpi dark 

 brown. Antenure of moderate length, scape testaceous, 

 flagellum dark brown. Head ferruginous brown. 



Mesonotum light brown witiiout daiker markings, the 

 surface densely covered with short seiie. Pleura pale 

 whitish yellow, unmarked. Halteres dark brown. Legs 

 with the cox?e and trochanters testaceous ; remainder of legs 

 brown ; claws of male apparently simple. Wings with a 

 nniformly pale grey tinge ; cell Sc brownish yellow ; an 

 inconspicuous brown seam along r-m and the basal deflection 

 of /?4+5 ; stigma narrow, dark brown ; veins dark brown. 

 Venation : Rs short, about as long as the petiole of cell J7, ; 

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



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the sternites more 

 yellowish; hypopygium brownish yellow. Male hypoi)ygium 

 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. 



Hub. Cameron n. 



Hololype, 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 subtermiual 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. 



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

 10 ram. 



Frontal prolongation of the head dull rufous, darker 

 laterally ; palpi dark brown. Antennee very long and 

 slender, if bent backward extending almost to mid-length 



