new or little-known Tipulidee. 149 
capillary median line dark brown; wings subhyaline, con- 
spicuously spotted with brown ; cell lst MZ, closed or open, 
the venation in this region inconstant. 
Male.—Length 7-775 mm.; wing 8°8-10 mm. 
Female.—Leugth about 5 mm.; wing about 6 mm. 
Rostrum obscure yellow; palpi dark brown. Antenne 
brownish black. Head grey. 
Mesonotal prescutum buffy yellow with three brownish- 
grey stripes, the interspaces and a capillary median line dark 
brown; scutal lobes brown; scutellum yellow, the base 
darker; postnotum grey. Pleura greyish with a short 
yellowish longitudinal stripe ending immediately before the 
halteres ; dorso-pleural area obscure yellow. Halteres pale, 
the knobs slightly darker. Legs with the cox and tro- 
chanters obscure yellow; remainder of the legs obscure 
yellow, the terminal tarsal segments infuscated. Wings 
subhyaline, conspicuously spotted with brown as follows :— 
Origin of Rs; at Sc.; along the cord and outer end of cell 
lst M,; small but distinct clouds at the ends of the longi- 
tudinal veins; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc, ending 
opposite the fork of R,,3, Sc, a short distance beyond the 
origin of Rs; r on F, a short distance beyond its origin ; 
cell 1st M/, closed or open; when closed, m is short, trans- 
verse, the outer deflection of MW; in one wing of the paratype 
elongated and rectangularly bent near mid-length ; in the 
holotype, the right wing has cell lst M, confluent with cell 
2nd M, by the atrophy of m, the left wing has both m and 
the deflection of 4/3; atrophied so that the distal section of 
M, lies free in the membrane as in certain Blepharoceride : 
these unstable conditions indicate an inconstant venation 
for the species ; basal deflection of Cu, oblique, some dis- 
tance before the fork of . 
Abdomen dark brown, the lateral margins of the segments 
broadly, the caudal margins more narrowly, yellowish ; 
hypopygium brownish yellow. Male hypopygium somewhat 
as in 7. confluens, but the gonapophyses are shorter and 
more strongly curved. 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, 8, Spreydon, Canterbury, December 1920 
(J. W. Campbell). 
Allotype, alcoholic ¢, Riccarton Bush, Christchurch, 
Canterbury, 1921 (EH. S. Gourlay). 
Paratype, §, Old Man Range, Central Otago, January 
1920 (Geo. Howes). 
