new or little-known Tipulide. 303 
dark areas as follows :—At origin of Rs ; at stigma, con- 
tinued caudad along cord ; conspicuous seams ov veins Cw, 
lst A, and 2nd A, except at the tips, which are broadly white ; 
other areas along M near the fork; on R,,3 before the tip ; 
on R, beyond mid-length; scattered along most of the length 
of R;; on M,,. near mid-length; on M; near two-thirds the 
length, and on the distal section of Cu, near mid-length ; tips 
of all the longitudinal veins pale except R;, where the dark 
sete continue to the margin. Male hypopygium with the 
basal pleural appendage on outer face before tip bearing 
three powerful spines, the more apical one smallest, the 
more basal spine largest, these spines nearly perpendicular 
to the appendage ;* apical pleural appendage sinuous, rather 
deeply bifid at tip, the arms divergent, the lateral arm longer 
but of about the same diameter-as the mesal or inner arm. 
Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 
Holotype, 3, Ohakune, altitude 2060 feet, October 7, 
P20 (7. R. Harris). 
Allotopotype, ° , October 15, 1921. 
Amphineurus molophilinus, sp. n. 
General coloration dark, the entire body very densely 
covered with long, whitish, somewhat flattened setz ; male 
anteune about one-half the length of the body; wings 
rufous brown, spotted with darker brown ; cell A, sessile as 
in Molophilus ; cell 1st My, closed. 
Male.——Length 6 mm. ; wing 7°4 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black. Autennez moderately elongate, 
approximately one-half as long as the body ; scape obscure 
yellowish brown; flagellum black, the segments with an 
abundant erect pubescence. Head dark grey, provided with 
abundant whitish sete. 
Mesonotal preescutum lght brown, with three darker 
brown stripes; entire surface except the broad median 
stripe almost concealed by abundant white appressed sete ; 
remaifider of mesonotum blackish, sparsely pruinose. 
Pleura dark, the colour practically concealed by abundant, 
white, appressed sete ; remainder of mesonotum blackish, 
sparsely pruinose. Pleura dark, the colour practically con- 
cealed by a great abundance of long white setz on all the 
sclerites. Halteres pale. Legs with the trochanters con- 
colorous with the pleura; remainder of the legs brownish 
black, the femoral bases narrowly and indistinctly paler. 
Wings with a strong rufous-brown tinge, spotted along the 
veins with dark brown, including areas at the origin of Ks, 
