
592 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
Basal abdominal tergites testaceous brown, darker laterally, on the fourth and 
sueceeding segments becoming darker brown, the posterior borders narrowly 
pale; basal sternites more uniformly yellow, wilh paler posterior borders; 
subterminal three segments more unifermly dark brown, with pale borders; 
hypopygium chiefly yellow. Male hypopygium with the caudal margin of the 
ninth tergite having a relatively narrow U-shaped noteh, the lateral lobes 
densely margined with microscopic blackened spicnlose points, those immediately 
back of this border sparse but lareer and stronger, merging behind with the more 
normal setae. Outer dististyle relatively narrow, arouated, terminating in a short 
blackened spinous point, Inner dististyle with the beak relatively stout, very 
slightly decurved, the lower beak more blackened, the margin nucroseopically 
erenulated; at base of style with a short stout blackened lobe that extends laterad 
into an acute point. 
Holotype, ¢, Torricelli Mountains, altitude 200-1,000 feet, January, 1939 
(Cheesman), 
This fly differs from Tipula (Papuclipula) divergens de Meijere and 7, (P.) 
meijereana Alexander, especially in the structure of the male hypopygium. 
TrunA (INDOTIPULA) SERRITERGATA Sp. nov. 
Allied to vilis; general coloration of praeseutum obseure orange, the four 
olive-yellow stripes barely distinguishable; flagellar segments binodose; wings 
yellowish, the cells beyond cord more infuscated, cell Se brown; cell 2nd A very 
narrow; male hypopyginm with the npper margin of the tergal blades micro- 
seopically toothed ; outer dististyle weakly bilobed ; inner dististyle with the outer 
basal lobe stout, at apex with a shallow emargiuation to appear Wilobulate. 
g Length, about 15 mm.; wing, 17 mm,; antenna, about 3-3 mm. 
© Length, about 15 mm,; wing, 17 nun, 
Frontal prolongation of head brownish yellow; nasus very long and slender ; 
palpi brownish yellow, the terminal segment passing into brown, Aritennae with 
the seape and pedicel obseuve yellow ; flagellum black; flagellar segments strongly 
binodose, as common in various species of the group, the outer enlargement beeom- 
ing more triangular and conspicuous on the outer segments; verticils very long. 
Head above brownish grey, paler behind; a capillary more blackish median stripe ; 
posterior orbits beneath light grey, 
Pronotum brown, Mesonotal praescutum with the ground obscure orange 
or brownish orange, the four stripes barely distinguishable against the ground, 
slightly more olive yellow; setae of the praescutal interspaces very delicate, pale; 
seutum olive-yellow; posterior sclerites of notum more orange yellow, the para- 
seutella and pleurotergite more infuseated; sentellum with very vague indications 
of a paler central line. Pleura chiefly yellow, the propleura and anepisternum 
