506 Dr. CG. P. Alexander on 
and beyond the stigma; veins black. Anal angle of the 
wing almost lacking. Venation : Se, ending a_ short 
distance beyond the origin of Rs, Sc. a corresponding 
distance before this origin, Sc; alone about equal to 7-m ; 
r a little shorter than the distal section of R, ; Rs feebly 
angulated at origin, about one-half longer than the deflection 
of Ry,5; cell lst M, open hy the atrophy of m; basal 
deflection of Cu, immediately beyond the fork of ™. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the basal sternites paler 
brown; hypopygium dark. 
Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 
Holotype, 3, Ohakune, altitude 2060 feet, November 10, 
NO 21CE. A, Harré): 
Paratopotypes,2 3 3. 
It is possible that the present species is more properly 
referable to the subgenus Thrypticomyia, Skuse. 
Dicranomyva atrovitiata, sp. n. 
Head dark grey; antenne black, the second scapal 
segment conspicuously pale brown; mesonotal prescutum 
with three brownish-black stripes, the lateral stripes 
extending to the lateral margins of the sclerite ; pleura dark 
brown ; femora with a pale brown subterminal ring ; wings 
pale yellow, the stigma nearly black ; cord, outer end of 
cell lst M,, and vein Cu seamed with brown; wing-tip 
broadly infuscated; abdomen yellow, the lateral margins 
conspicuously and abruptly dark brown. 
Female.—Length 9 mm. ; wing 8°5 mm. 
Described from an alcoholic specimen. 
Rostrum moderately elongate, but much shorter than 
in D. huttoni, Edwards, dark brown, including the palpi. 
Antenne black, the second scapal segment conspicuously 
paler, light brown; second scapal segment subpyriform ; 
flagellar segments oval with short necks. Head dark grey, 
the anterior part of the vertex lighter grey. 
Pronotum dark. Mesonotal preescutum obscure reddish 
yellow with three brownish-black stripes ; median stripe not 
attaining the suture; lateral stripes crossing the suture and 
suffusing the cephalic half of the scutal lobes, these stripes 
very broad, on the prascutum extended laterad to the 
margin of the sclerite; median area of scutum reddish 
yellow, faintly and indistinctly darkened; scutellum con- 
spicuously yellow; postnotum dark brown on caudal half. 
Pleura dark brown, the caudal margin of the propleura 
