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AtSTKAl.IAN UlXID.i:. 



drical, indistiiifruishahle from each other, especially towards 

 the end; relative length of palpal joints as in preceding 

 species. 



Venation: r-m placed after fRs; stem of |J., ;. only a 

 little shorter than R., 



Hypopyjrium: Side pieces moderately lani;- with an in- 

 ternal pre-apical thin process about as long- as the claspers 

 and swollen at tip, which carries three or four small bristles, 

 two of which are stouter; claspers broad, trianjjular, ending 

 in two branches separated by a semi-circular notch, the in- 

 ferior branch curved upwards and with its tip black, strongly 

 chitinous; the two lateral inferior pieces of the aidceaj>us dark 

 and with three hooky spines, two pointirifr downwards and 

 the terminal one upwards. 

 Wing- length: 3 1-3 mm. 



Female: Colouring exactly the same as in male; stem of 

 Rs relatively shorter, wing marking more intensive, espec- 

 ially the shadcAv around the extremity* of Cu. 



Type and allotype from Mt. Wellington, Tasmania, 25th 

 November, 1922. In the collection of the Cawthron Institute. 

 A dozen i)aratypes from the same locality and from Hartz 

 Mt., 9th December. 1922; Burnie, 31st January, 1923; Eagle- 

 Hawk Neck, 15th Novcml)er, 1922; Mt, Field, National-park, 

 IHth December, 1922; Mt. F^arrell. 9(h February, 1923. All 

 these localities in Tasmania. 



I). XICHOLSOM, n.sp. 



Hk. 



Hyiicpyi'iiim oi /I 



I inm Jil>iivc anil li-.'m llii- 



<|p. 



Male: Head with appendages darl: brown; niesonotum 

 with three confluent broad dark bands which leave only very 

 little dull ferrUL'inous colour on the side-^ mikI Itefort the 



