148 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 
confluent brown stripes; wings with a faint greyish-brown 
tinge, unmarked except for the pale brown stigma ; cell 
Ist M, confluent with cell M3. 
Male.—Length 7-7'4 mm. ; wing 7-9'2 mm. 
Female.—Length 5°5 mm.; wing 65 mm. 
Rostrum obscure yellow; palpi dark brown. Antenne 
brownish black. Head grey. 
Pronotum yellowish, dark brown medially. Mesonotal 
preescutum yellow, the disk practically covered by three con- 
fluent dark brown stripes ; tuberculate pits large, separated 
by a distance a little less than the diameter of one; scutum 
with the lobes brown, yellowish posteriorly ; scutellum ob- 
scure yellow ; postnotum dark brown on the posterior two- 
thirds, obscure yellow on the basal third. Pleura yellow, in- 
distinetly marked with darker. Halteres brown, the base of 
the stem and tips of the knobs yellow. Legs with the cox 
and trochanters obscure yellow; remainder of the legs ob- 
scure yellow, the terminal tarsal segments infuscated; legs 
with conspicuous erect sete. Wings with faint greyish- 
brown tinge ; stigma pale brown; veins brown. Venation: 
Sc; ending opposite the end of 7, Sc, only a little distance 
beyond the origin of Rs; Rs straight ; 7 on R, about one- 
half or less its length beyond the fork ; cell 1s¢ M, open by 
the atrophy of the outer deflection of M3, so cells 1st M, and 
M; are confluent ; basal deflection of Cu, at the fork of M ; 
vein 2nd A straight, a little sinuous at the outer end. 
Abdomen dark brown; genital segment paler, especially 
in the female. Male hypopygium large and _ powerful, 
especially the pleurites; outer pleural appendage termi- 
nating in a powerful black spine ; inner pleural appendage 
with the apex obtuse, slightly dilated; gonapophyses appear- 
ing as long, slender, gently curved horns, 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, &, Christchurch, October 10, 1917 (J. W. 
Campbell) ; mounted in balsam, 
Altotype, 2, Blackball, West Coast, March 1920 (J. W. 
Campbell). 
Paratopotype, 8 ; mounted in balsam. 
The beautiful slides of this species and other Tipulide in 
my collection were prepared by Dr. Campbell, to whom I am 
greatly indebted for many favours. 
Trimicra inconstans, sp. n. 
General coloration yellow with brown markings ;_ pre- 
scutum with brownish-grey stripes, the interspaces and a 
