Lamb. — Tiro BJcpharocerids from New Zealand. 73 



The liind legs very long, both absolutely and compared with the others ; 

 femora elongate club-shaped ; tibial spurs on the hind pair ; claws simple, 

 no visible empodia. 



Abdomen, in the dried specimens, compressed laterally, with the usual 

 large and complex hypopygium (fig. 5). 



Type. — The following species. 



Country. — New Zealand. 



Neocurupira hudsoni sp. nov. 



Head as in figures. The vertex is small, so that only the black ocellar 

 turret is visible. Upper eyes brown, lower black, both clothed with pro- 

 fuse dense brown pubescence. The lower margins of the lower eyes with 

 long hairs. Antennae brown-black. Face grey ; tongue, &c., black. 



Thorax deep dull black, tiny orange humeral protuberances with orange 

 patch behind ; hind angles of thoracic dorsum and the pleurae above the 

 wing-bases orange ; lower pleurae dusted with grey. Scutellum margined 

 with greyer black ; metanotum more shining black. Wings as figured and 

 described for the genus, glassy with black veins ; the extreme base orange ; 

 a fine ciliation along the hind margin, which is longer at the extreme base 

 and at the anal angle ; the little chitinous patch at the angle of the 

 axillary lobe is well marked ; net veins evident, but showing no special 

 characters. 



Halteres with long pale stalks and flattened triangular brown heads. 



Legs brownish-black, except for the front coxae, the base of the front 

 femora, and the thin basal two-thirds of the hind femora, which are paler. 

 Front femora bent and thickened towards the tip. Hind femora very long, 

 about three times the length of the middle ones, spindle-shaped, with a 

 slender basal part, which gradually thickens out into a slender club-shaped 

 distal part. Two well-marked spines on the hind tibiae. All the claws 

 simple, but thickened at the base. 



Abdomen slender, compressed laterally in the dried specimens. Black, 

 paler at the base, and indistinctly and narrowly so on the margins of the 

 segments. Male hypopygium with the usual complex structure, and as 

 shown in fig. 5 in side view : («) is one of a pair of later temiinal lobes, 

 (6) one of a pair of dorsal lobes, {(•) is a hood-like extension of the dorsal 

 part of a segment, it is depressed in the centre but not bifid. The internal 

 structures could not be studied, owing to the small amount of material, 

 but as far as they can be seen are much like those figured in Kellogg' s 

 monograph, pi. 2, fig. 15. 



Size. — About 8 mm. ; wing, about 8 mm. 



Locality. — Otira, New Zealand. The species is numbered 231 in Mr. 

 G. V. Hudson's collection. 



Type in Cambridge Museum. 



Paratypes in the British Museum and at Cambridge. 



The other species is represented by both sexes, and the male is shown 

 three times full size in fig. 6. It is distinguished by the non-holoptic eyes 

 (see fig. 7), which are just bisected by a furrow into lower and upper, while 

 the facets are of nearly equal size. There is an unforked vein between the 

 first and fourth, the general venation being very like that of Paltostoma 

 (see Kellogg, " Genera Insectorum," pi. , fig. 21). The palpi are minute 

 as in that genus, and the proboscis is long. The insect dift'ers from Schiner's 



