310 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 
Hab. New Zealand (Both Islands). 
Holotype, 3, Ohakune, altitude 2060 feet, October 1, 1921 
(7. R. Harris). 
Allotype, 2, Greymouth, sea-level, September 7, 1921 
(T. R. Harris). 
Paratopotypes, 10 3 3, September 21 to October 11,1921 ; 
paratype, 1 S, with the allotype; 3 ¢,1 9, Dunedin, No- 
vember 26, 1921 (G. Howes). 
In its general appearance, Limnophi/a maorica somewhat 
suggests L. delicatula, Hutton, a very different fly. 
Limnophila maorica bispina, subsp. n. 
Very similar to the typical form, but the basal pleural 
appendage of the male hypopygium, instead of being a simple, 
very elougate red, is shorter, stouter, at the tip split into two 
branches, the lateral branch short and straight, the mesally 
directed spine nearly four times the lateral spine, gradually 
narrowed to the acute apex where it is strongly curved. 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, 8, Greymouth, sea-level, September 7, 1921 
Ci. Harris). 
Limnophila mirifica, sp. n. 
General coloration light brown; mesonotal prescutum 
with three darker brown stripes; femora with conspicuous 
erect setee on ventral face; wings with a pale brown tinge; 
stigma elongate, darker brown; cell M, present, small; male 
hypopygium comparatively large and complicated in str ucture; 
eighth sternite terminating in a oe of blackened teeth. 
Male.—Length about 4:8 mm.; wing 6°2 mm. 
Rostrum dark grey- pruinose ; palpi black. Antennze 
broken. Head black with a sparse grey pubescence aa- 
teriorly, ou the posterior part of the vertex more yellowish. 
Pronotum almost white. Mesonotal prescutum light 
brown with three darker brown stripes; remainder of 
mesonotum badly crushed, the postnotum grey-pruinose. 
Pleura with a ‘pale pollen, more pruinose posteriorly. 
Halteres pale. Legs with the coxe yellow, the fore cox 
infuscated; tr ochanters pale; femora light brow n, with long, 
conspicuous, erect setz on the ventral fees ‘ bibie and ue 
brown. Wings with a pale brown tinge, the stigma elongate, 
darker brown: veins black. Venation: Sc eae Sc, much 
longer than Sc; ‘and ending opposite the fork of es r faint, 
ou Re about one and one- “half times its length beyond the 
fork; Rs in alignment with 2,3; Jt,, a little longer than 
