ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN TIPULIDAE 



E. Bergroth. 



Mr. L. Peringuey, now of Cape Town, has kindly sub- 

 mitted to ray examination a small number of Tipulidae from the 

 Cape Colony. Having received from prof. Aurivillius some 

 other, collected by Waheberg in Caffraria and preserved in the 

 Stockholm Museum, I think it worth recording these species, as 

 there are some remarkable forms among them and our know- 

 ledge of the African Tipulidae is extremely limited. 



i. Dicranomyia tipulipes Karsch, Ent. Nachr. XII, 51 



(1886). 



Cape Town. — This species was hitherto known only from 

 Pungo Andongo. It is easily distinguished by having the small 

 cross-vein reduced in such a degree, that the submarginal cell is 

 almost in immediate contact with the discal cell at the base of 

 the first posterior cell. 



2. Dicranomyia consimilis n. sp. 



Opaca. Caput canum; antennae capite paullo longiores, 

 subfuscae, articulis rotundatis. Collare et thorax fusca, hoc ad 

 humeros pallescente, pleuris fusco-cinereis. Scutellum et metano- 

 tum fusco-cinerea. Alae sat angustae, leviter cinerascentes, vena 

 subcostali annulis duobus latiusculis nigrofuscis signata, uno medio, 

 altero ad initium venae radialis, praefurca basi et apice paullo 

 infuscata, stigmate leviter nigrescente, vena auxiliari paullo ultra 



