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-fifth posterior cells. Smaller brown spots at the base of the 

 second posterior cell, and at the tips of the hinder branch of 

 the fourth and the intercalary veins. The second longitudinal, 

 at its origin, bends almost at a right angle. The posterior 

 cross-vein is siuuated, and joins the inner margin of the discal 

 cell. The subcostal cross-vein is at a short distance behind 

 the tip of the auxiliary but outside the chief cross- vein. 

 Length, g 14 mm., 5 12 mm.; wing, ^ 15 mm., $ 14 mm. 

 Hah. Wellington (Hudson). 



liimnophila argus, sp. nov. 

 Pale-brown, marked with fuscous. Head, mesonotum, 

 margins of the metanotum, and a band on each side of the 

 thorax from head, under the wing, to the metanotum, fuscous. 

 Scutellum pale. First abdominal segment pale ; second and 

 third dark, with a pale central mark ; the anterior half of the 

 others dark, while the posterior half is pale, with a wedge- 

 shaped dark dorsal mark, which has two yellow spots near its 

 base. Femora pale-brown, with two dark rings near the tip ; 

 tibiae and tarsi dark-brown. Wings hyaline, with ocellated 

 brown spots on the origin and on the fork of the second longi- 

 tudinal, at the marginal cross-vein, at the fork of the anterior 

 branch of the fourth longitudinal, at the tip of the seventh 

 longitudinal, and another inside it. Also simple rings at the 

 tips of most of the longitudinal veins and on the posterior 

 cross-vein ; brown bands on the chief cross-vein, and at the 

 outer margin of the discal cell. The subcostal cross-vein is 

 close to the tip of the auxiliary. The first submarginal cell is 

 three-fourths of the length of the second. The posterior cross- 

 vein enters the discal cell near the middle. Length, S 14 mm., 

 ? 19 mm. ; wing, c?, $ 15 mm. 

 Hah. Wellington (Hudson). 



j3. Empodia absent. 



Limnophila crassipes, sp. nov. Plate IV., fig. 15. 



Pale yellowish-brown ; mesonotum with indistinct brown 

 bands. The tips of the femora and a ring a little inside them 

 dark-brown; tarsi dark-brown. Wings dirty-yellow, the veins 

 brown ; pale-brown spots at the origin of the second longi- 

 tudinal, at the tip of the auxiliary, at the origin of the third 

 longitudinal, in the middle of the first submarginal cell, at the 

 base of the posterior basal cell, and on the posterior cross- 

 vein. The subcostal cross-vein is near the tip of the auxiliary. 

 The first submarginal cell is about three-quarters of the length 

 of the second. The posterior cross-vein enters the discal cell 

 near the middle. The tibial spurs are long, and the ungues 

 are large, but there are no empodia. Length, $ 12 mm. ; 

 wing, 5 19 mm. The male is unknown. 



