new or little-known Tipulide. 301 
another tubercle on lateral face before apex; a third on 
mesal face, more basad in position ; immediately basad of 
this a small blackened lobe with the margin microscopically 
denticulate. 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, 3 , Nelson, December 7, 1920 (R. J. Tillyard). 
Allotype, ¢ , Dun Mt., January 24, 1921 (A. Philpott). 
Paratypes, 1 8, 1%, Dun Mt., altitude 2000 feet, 
December 14, 1920; 1 ¢, 1 sex ?, December 2, 1920; 1 2, 
Dun Mt., altitude 2000 feet, January 24, 1921 (A. Philpott) ; 
Dunedin, 1 g,2 ¢ 2, November 26, 1921 (G. Howes). 
_ Type in the collection of the Cawthron Institute. 
Molophilus plagiatus, sp. n. 
General coloration yellow ; antenne short, pale in colour ; 
mesonotal prescutum uniform in colour ; dorsal pleurites 
dark brown, bordered ventrally by a silvery line; fore femora 
black; wings pale yellow, with a large area of black macro- 
trichiz along the cord; less distinct seams along veins 
Cu and Cu, ; basal pleural appendage of male hypopygium 
a straight rod bearing at and before the tip on the outer 
face two long acute spines that are perpendicular to the 
appendage. 
Male.—Length 3°5 mm.; wing 4°6 mm. 
Female.—Length about 4 mm. ; wing 5 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne short, pale 
brownish testaceous. Head yellow, infuscated posteriorly. 
Mesonotal prescutum, scutum, and scutellum uniformly 
pale brownish yellow, the postnotum dark brown. Pleura with 
all the dorsal sclerites dark brown, the ventral margin sharply 
delimited, extending from the fore cox to the base of the 
abdomen, passing beneath the root of the halteres ; ventral 
sclerites of pleura and the sternum pale with a microscopic 
silvery pubescence adjoining the dark margin, on the ster- 
nites passing into yellow. Halteres densely covered with 
brown and golden sete. Legs with the coxe and trochanters 
obscure yellow; fore femora covered with long black sete, 
only the extreme bases narrowly paler; other femora yellow ; 
tibize yellow, on the fore tibize the tips and an indistinct 
subbasal ring blackish ; other tibize uniformly yellow, the 
tips weakly infuscated ; metatarsi obscure yellow, the tips 
blackened ; remainder of tarsi black. Wings pale yellow, 
with principally yellow macrotrichiz ; a large area of black 
macrotrichiz along the cord; veins Cu and Cu, faintly 
seamed with black macrotrichie; less distinct areas on 
