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through the apices of the basal cells, and a third, which is 

 Y-shaped, through the apex of the discal cell. There are also 

 spots on the hind margin of the wing between these fasciae, 

 and brown rings at the tips of most of the longitudinal veins. 

 Length, 3 13 mm., $ 18 mm.; wing, g- 31mm., ? 34 mm.; 

 antennge, <? , $ 3 mm.; hind femur, 3 , ? 9mm.; fore femur, 

 3 7 mm., $ 8 mm. 



Hah. Wellington (Hudson). 



The hind tibia and hind tarsus are each of the same 

 length as the hind femur ; but the fore tarsus is longer 

 than the fore femur, and longer even than the hind tarsus. 

 The posterior cross-vein arises at the inner angle of the 

 discal cell, so that the base of the fourth posterior cell 

 is pointed. 



Tanyderus forcipatus. Plate IV., fig. 22. 



Tanyderus forcipatus, Osten-Sacken, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxix., 

 p. 520 (1879). . 



Eeddish-brown. Head and neck dark-brown. Thorax 

 cinerous, the centre of the mesonotum dark-brown, divided by 

 a pale longitudinal line. Halteres dark-brown. Abdomen 

 brown, with a row of cinerous spots on each side ; the anal 

 styles orange. Coxae, femora, and hind tibise reddish-brown ; 

 all the joints fuscous. Wings white, with brown markings, 

 the costal cell yellowish, the veins dark-brown. The auxiliary, 

 the first longitudinal, and the anterior branch of the second 

 longitudinal alone have hairs. The markings on the wings 

 are two round spots on the costa, one of which, at the origin 

 of the second longitudinal, is encircled by a broad band which 

 passes through the apices of the basal cells and through 

 the anal cell to the base of the wing ; the other is at the 

 apex of the auxiliary vein, and outside it there is a broad 

 oblique fascia through the base of the first submarginal and 

 apex of the discal cells to the tip of the sixth longitudinal, 

 but is interrupted along the posterior intercalary vein. Tips 

 of the wings and a spot at the end of the posterior branch 

 of the fourth longitudinal and one on the posterior margin 

 of the axillary cell brown. Length, $ 15 mm. ; wing, 

 $ 15 mm. ; hind femur, 2 8 mm. ; fore femur, 8 mm. 



Hah. Welhngton (Hudson) ; Otago (F. W. H.). 



The legs are more robust than in the last species. Neither 

 of the hind tarsi are perfect in my specimen. The posterior 

 intercalary vein arises from the posterior cross-vein a short 

 distance iDelow its junction with the fourth longitudinal, so 

 that the fourth posterior cell has a fiat base. 



