bergroth: on some south African tipuljdae. 139 



Gaboon. The remarkable structure of the propygium distinguis- 

 hes it from all the few described african Tipulae. 



14. Tipula pomposa n. sp. 



Caput fulvum. Antennae capite vix longiores, fulvae, arti- 

 culis fiagelli, primo excepto, basi nigris et levissime incrassatis. 

 Palpi fuscescentes. Collare fulvum. Thorax cum pleuris fulvo- 

 luteus, vittis tribus dorsalibus fuscis nigrolimbatis praeditus, vitta 

 latissima media medio late longitudinaliter nigro-lineata/ vittis 

 lateralibus pone suturam continuatis; medio inter apicem collaris 

 et bases alarum adest punctum parvum nigrum. Scutellum et 

 metanotum lutea, vitta media lata longitudinali communi fusco- 

 cinnamomea praedita, hac vitta in scutello linea longitudinali 

 tenui pallida divisa, in metanoto pone medium subito valde 

 angustata et deinde solum velut linea tenuis continuata. Ad 

 angulos basales metanoti adest punctum parvum nigrum. Alae 

 rubiginosae, ad marginem anticum saturatiores, utrinque secundum 

 venam praebrachialem magis hyalinae, stigmate pallide fusco, 

 vena transversa majore fuscolimbata, macula minore nigra ad 

 basin venae postbrachialis mox supra venam analem. Halteres 

 fusci, clava nigra. Pedes lutei, annulo apicali femorum nigro, 

 tarsis fuscis. Abdomen, lateribus segmentorum duorum basalium 

 fiavidis exceptis, pallide fuscum, dorso saturatiore, linea laterali 

 nigrofusca; ad imam basin abdominis aliquantum pone basin 

 halterum utrinque adest punctum parvum nigrum. Propygium 

 nonnihil incrassatum, maximam partem flavidum, lamina terminali 

 supera (fig. 4) late ampullacea. Long, g 71 corp. et alae 26 mm., 

 ped.postic. 62 mm. 



Caffraria. 



15. Tipula albovittata Macq., Dipt. exot. I, i, p. 53; 

 Loew, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. X, 1866, p. 57 (Holorusia). Syn.: 

 Tipula rubiginosa Big. in Maillard, Notes sur Pile de la Reunion, 

 Annexe M., pag. 37. 



This species, hitherto only known from the isles of Mauritius 

 and Bourbon, was found in Caffraria by Wahlberg. It is well 

 described by Loew and Bigot 11. cc. I have compared the pro- 



Entomol. Tidskr. Arg. 9, H. 3 (1888). I 1 



