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are approximated for a short distance beyond the origin of the 2nd vein, 

 but are separated both proximally and distally, the upper branch being lost 

 in the pignaent of the stigma, while the intervening space is dark brown 

 (fig. 4) ; 2nd vein almost straight, being but slightly upturned distally to 

 meet the costa ; 3rd vein forked, the anterior branch leaving at right angles, 

 curving forward almost immediately and then gradually upwards to the 

 costa, the posterior branch being slightly down-curved ; the anterior trans- 

 verse vein oblique, the posterior, which is strongly sinuated, is one and a 

 half tim,es its own length from the margin of the wing ; anal cell shorter 

 than the 2nd basal, the anal cross- vein, which is parallel to the posterior 

 margin of the wing, forming an obtuse angle with the anal vein, the anal 

 angle being developed. 



Legs brownish-black, shghtly shiny and hairy with a lighter tomentum, 

 the femora not thickened, the anterior leg.-, being the shortest. A few 

 bristles ventrally on the posterior and dorsally on the middle femora but 

 none on the anterior, the coxae of which are ; horter : in certain hghts, the 

 tibiae with a brownish appearance proximally and dense longer hairs dis- 

 tally on the ventral side of the anterior tibiae, which are thickened to carry 

 the enlarged metatarsi, the following tarsal joints of this pair of legs pos- 

 sessing a few bristles amcmgst the hairs of the vestiture ; the posterior tibiae 

 bear a dorsal pre-apical bristle,* while ventrally the apical corner is pro- 

 duced, to a tubercle ; the posterior metatarsi are nearly three times as long 

 as the following joint, while those of the middle legs are not twice as long. 



Abdomen long and hnear, of a dark-brown colour, hghter below ; on the 

 sides long and scattered hairs, denser on the 1st segment ; on the anterior 

 corners of each segment and on the sides of the last two a grey tomentum ; 

 dorsally and ventrally convex, but beyond the dth segment the ventral 

 surface is flattened, the connecting membrane of the dorsal and ventral 

 plates disappearing. The hypopygium, which is prominent, swollen, and 

 upturned, is hairy with a scattered grey tomentum ; projecting forward is 

 a narrow, pointed, shiny-black process, from the apex of which extends a 

 long stiff golden hair (fig. 5), while on the upper side is a black chitinous 

 plate toothed on its upper sidft and projecting over a deep notch in the 

 hypopygium. 



cJ. L"ngth, 7 mm. ; wing, 8 mm. 



Hah. — Captured on manuka above a beach at Astrolabe, Nelson, January, 

 ]ltl2. Not common. 



Hilara kaiteriensis sp. nov. Plate 1, fig. 1. 



Head a little broader than long, eyes bare and dichoptic, deeply 

 emarginate at the base of the antennae, and occupying the greater part of 

 the side of the head. Frous tawny, with a yellow tomentum and a medio- 

 longitudinal darker line in certain lights, the orbits being tawny without 

 tomentum and the fronto-orbital bristles being arranged as in H. henhami. 

 Ocellar triangle rounded but not occupying most of the vertex between the 

 eyes, with yellow reflections (darker n certain lights) and a pair of strong but 

 not long ocellar bristles and a pair of weak post-ocellar ones; ocelli o'ange. 

 Pace easily seen in profile, tawny with a yellow tomentum, and ending 

 considerably above the lower eye-margin ; the epistome projecting slightly ; 

 cheeks narrow and tawny with a yellow tomentum, the oral margin rounded 



* Til the illustration it is drawn on the ventral side. 



