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and Mi pale; abdomen beyond the basal segment dark grayish 

 brown throughout. Male. — Length about 9 mm. ; wing 14 

 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head gray, more brownish laterally; 

 nasus very long ; palpi dark brown. Antennse very short, brown. Head 

 grayish brown, paler gray adjoining the inner margin of the eyes. 



Mesonotal prascutum gray with four brown stripes, the intermediate 

 pair only narrowly separated by a capillary line ; scutum pale buff, each 

 lobe with a brown discal area; scutellum and postnotum pale buff. 

 Pleura gray. Halteres dark brown. Legs with the coxae gray; tro- 

 chanters brownish yellow; remainder of the legs broken Wings com- 

 paratively long and narrow, more than four and one-half times as long 

 as wide; dark brown with a conspicuous, subhyaline, vittate pattern, 

 this appearing as a lunate area in the outer end of cell M, including also 

 the distal end of R and the proximal end of 1st if 2; bases of cells R^ 

 and Rz rather narrowly pale; cells Mi, 2nd M^ and if 3 and the bases 

 of cells Cu, 1st A and 3nd A are much paler than the ground-color; 

 veins dark brown. Venation: Basal section of if 3+4 subequal to basal 

 section of M\^2; petiole of cell ifi about equal to m; cells ifi, 2nd if 2, 

 if 3 and Cui deeper than in if. alexanderi Edw. ; cell 2nd A narrower 

 than in alexanderi but wider than in M. vittata Edw. 



Abdomen dark grayish brown throughout, only the basal tergite a 

 little paler; ninth tergite of male hypopygium with a deep notch. 



Hab. New Zealand. Holotype, cf , exact locality unknown 

 (/. W. Campbell). 



Macromastix hudsoniana, sp. n. 



Size small (wing of cf under 10 mm.); antennae of male 

 longer than body; general coloration pale brown, the praescu- 

 tum quadrivittate with darker brown; thorax without con- 

 spicuous erect setae; wings with a brown tinge, cells C, Sc and 

 the stigma darker brown. Male. — Length 7 mm. ; wing 9.5 mm. ; 

 antenna 10 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of head brown; palpi dark brown. Antennse 

 of male elongate, greatly exceeding the body, dark brownish black 

 throughout; first flagellar segment a little longer than the combined 

 scapal segments, only indistinctly separated from the second flagellar 

 segment; flagellar segments beyond the third gradually decreasing in 

 length, the last segment very small, subglobular; flagellar segments 

 six to nine each with a pair of long, verticillate bristles immediately 

 before midlength. Head brown, more grayish adjoining the inner 

 margin of the eyes. 



Mesonotal prascutum pale brownish testaceous with four darker 

 brown stripes; scutum similar, the lobes darker brown; scutellum and 

 postnotum brownish testaceous; mesonotum subglabrous. Pleura pale 



