Lamb. — Two Blepharocerids from New Zealand. 



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vol. 3, and in a monograph of the family by the same author published 

 in Wytsman's " Genera Inse^torum," 1907. 



The genera hitherto known are distributed as follows : — 



Apistoniyia. Corsica and Cyprus. 



Hammatorrhina. Ceylon. • 



Paltostoma. St. Vincent, West Indies, Columbia, South America. 



Kelloggina. Rio de Janeiro. 



Citrupira. Brazil. 



Hapalothrix. Italy. 



Blcpharocera. Europe, East America, California. 



Bibiocephala. America, Rocky Mountains and west. 



Philorus. Europe and West United States. 

 In addition, I have seen a species from the Cape, which is to be 

 described by Mr. F. W. Edwards ; it appears to belong to the genus 

 Kelloggina ; and I have also seen an unnamed species from India. 



The two new species here treated are of especial interest, as they carry 

 the range of the family into the Australian region. The insects belong to 

 two distinct genera. They have very minute hairy palpi, which are inserted 

 at the base of the proboscis, and require careful looking for to see at all 

 clearly. The proboscis is enclosed in a sheath which ends in two remark- 

 able long processes, which in the males are as long as the parts forming 

 the sheath. This character seems to be one which is not possessed by any 

 of the hitherto-published species. The hind legs are excessively long, both 

 absolutely and relative to the other pairs. The presence of long hind legs 

 is very usual in the family, but none of the published figures or descriptions 

 show the great disparity which exists in the present species. 



The larger of the two species is represented by males only, and is shown 

 three times the full size in fig. 1. The photograph is a little incomplete, 

 as the specimen had lost the last joint 

 of one hind tarsus and the last two 

 joints of the other. It was selected 

 for illustration as it was set out flat, 

 so that the relative proportions can be 

 easily measured. The figure shows 

 very well the great length of the hind 

 legs. In its general character it comes 

 nearest to the genus Curupira (F. 

 Miiller) 0. S. This genus was described 

 and figured in great detail by F. 

 Miiller, '" Archivos do Museo Nacional 

 do Rio de Janeiro," vol. 4, 1879, pi. 7. 

 The dift'erences between the present 

 insect and the figures and description 

 of Miiller are so considerable that it is 

 felt to be impossible to place it in that 

 genus. Baron Osten Sacken (Berl. Ent. 

 Zeit., vol. 40, 1895, p. IGO) gave a 

 warning against the multiplication of 

 genera in such an evidently decadent 

 family as the Blepharoceridae, pointing 

 out that it may result in many genera becoming monotypical ; but it is 

 felt that having regard to the isolated position of the present species, and 



Fig. 1. — Xeocurupira hudsoni ; x 3. 



