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to thirteenth each bearing an inside appendage wliich is very short on 

 the third and the thirteenth ; the last joints finely bristled. Thorax 

 robust. Abdomen more than three times the length of the thorax, 

 slightly flattened, the horn-like ovipositor projecting nearly half the 

 length of the abdomen, thick at the base, then gradually smaller from 

 the middle, running out into two fine flaps a little bent up, the lower 

 piece only reaching to the middle of the upper. Legs rather strong ; 

 the tibiae spurred at the end, the empodium strongly developed. 

 Wings long and proportionately smaller than in Gynoplista. Medias- 

 tinal vein long, the cross vein with the subcostal close up to the 

 point ; the sub-branches of all the veins much larger than in Gyno- 

 plista, consequently the discoidal cell is placed towards the middle of 

 the wing, Poisers with a broad head. 



C. suBFASciATA. Walker, I.e., p. 74 (Gynoplista) (1848). 



Body dark ferruginous ; head brown ; antennae black, tawny at 

 base, slightly branched on the inner side, shorter than the thorax. 

 Eyes and palpi black. Thorax with four hoary stripes, which are 

 united in the rear, and there overspread the whole hinder back. 

 Ovipositor long. Feet tawny ; thighs brown, with pale-tawny bands 

 near their tips ; tips of the tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings with a 

 slight tawny tinge, having each two brown bands, which are distinct 

 on the fore-border, but pale, interrupted, and almost obsolete towards 

 the hind-border; veins brown. Poisers yellow, with tawny knobs. 



Length, 7 lines. 



New Zealand (Dr. Sinclair). 



aenus-MEGISTOCEEA. 



Wied. 



Joints of the palpi nearly equal. Antennae setaceous, very long, 



ten-jointed ; the first cylindrical, thick ; the second cyathiform ; the 



others cylindrical, getting longer towards the end. Tarsi very long. 



Wings open ; the cells as in Tipula. 



M. vuLPiNA, sp. nov. 



Thorax and scutellum cinereous. On the thorax before the 

 suture four longitudinal well-marked dusky bands ; the two internal 

 extending the whole length; the two external short, extending only 

 from the suture half-way to the anterior margin. Thorax and chest 

 with long yellow hairs. Abdomen fulvous, with silvery scales ; a 

 medium dorsal dusky band on the three anterior segments. Head 

 cinereous, with long yellow hairs. First joint of the antennae cinereous, 

 the rest dusky ; proboscis cinereous ; palpi black, with silvery scales, 



