new or little-known Tipulide. 153 
ends of cells R;, R;, and Ist M, about in alignment; cell 
lst M, small, pentagonal; cell 47, only a little shorter than 
its petiole; basal deflection of Cu, rather close to the fork 
of M, at about one-sixth the length of cell lst M,. 
Abdomen dark brown. Ovipositor dark horn-colour, 
elongate-acicular. 
Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 
Holotype, 2, Mt. Ruapehu, alpine zone, altitude 4000- 
5000 ft., January 1921 (MW. N. Watt). 
* Collected in thick bush.” 
Limnophila watti is named in honour of the collector, 
Mr. Morris N. Watt, to whom the writer is indebted for 
many fine crane-flies from the alpine zones of Mts. Egmont 
and Ruapehu. 
Limnophila ruapehuensis, sp. n. 
General coloration yellow; mesonotal prescutum with 
indistinct darker stripes ; head yellow; legs yellow, only the 
terminal tarsal segments darkened ; wings light yellow, 
r very indistinct, far from the tip of R,; cell JZ, small, only 
about one-half the length of its petiole. 
Female.—Length 6 mm. ; wing 6°2-6°3 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne dark brown, 
the basal segment paler. Head with a brownish-yellow 
pollen. 
Mesonotum with a brownish-yellow pollen, the prescutum 
with three very faint darker stripes, the humeral region 
yellowish; tuberculate pits as in L. watti, elongate, situated 
far caudad and lying close together. Pleura yellow, the 
dorsal pleurites marked with brown. Halteres yellow. 
Legs with the coxz and trochanters yellow ; remainder of 
the legs yellow, the terminal tarsal segments infuscated. 
Wings light yellow; veins brownish yellow. Venation: 
Sc, about twice the length of Sc,; R,,3 shorter than the 
deflection of Ay,;; 7 very indistinct, far removed from the 
tip of R,; cell M, small, about one-half the length of its 
petiole ; basal deflection of Cu, at about one-fifth the length 
of cell lst My. 
Abdominal segments distinctly annulated, the basal two- 
fifths or less of each segment dark brown, the distal three- 
fifths or more yellowish. Ovipositor elongate, yellowish 
horn-colour, 
Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 
Holotype, 9, Mt. Ruapehu, alpine zone, altitude 4000- 
5000 ft., January 1921 (AL NV. Watt). 
