new or little-known Tipulidae. 507 
obseure yellow ; posterior pleurites obscure yellow; meso- 
sternum dark brown. Halteres pale, the knobs brown. 
Legs with the coxz yellow, the cephalic face infuscated, 
darkest on the fore coxee; trochanters yellow ; femora 
obscure yellow, with a narrow, indistinct, brown, subter- 
minal ring ; remainder of the legs pale brown, the terminal 
tarsal segments blackened ; claws conspicuously toothed. 
Wings pale yellow, cells Cand Se a little brighter; stigma 
very conspicuous, almost black; narrow, dark brown seams 
at tip of Se, origin of Rs, along the cord, outer end of cell 
lst Md, and along vein Cu; wing-tip very broadly and con- 
spicuously darkened, the colour continued basad almost to 
the level of the outer end of cell lst M,; veins brown, 
darker in the infuscated areas. Venation: Sc, ending a 
short distance beyond the origin of Rs, Sc, about twice its 
length from the tip of Sc,;; Rs gently arcuated at origin ; 
cell ls¢ M, unusually elongate, rectangular ; basal deflection 
of Cu, near one-fourth the length of cell lst M/.. 
Abdominal tergites yellow, segments 1 and 8 brighter 
yellow ; base of segment 2 and the broad lateral margins 
of tergites 2 to 7 conspicuously dark brown ; tergites each 
with four brown dots arranged in the form of a broad V, 
more evident on tergites 2 to 6; sternites obscure 
yellow, the second segment infuscated ; sternites 2 to 7 
with a pair of brown dots near mid-length. Ovipositor 
with the valves elongate, horn-coloured, blackened at base. 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, 2, Governor’s Bay, Banks Peninsula, Cauter- 
bury, October 5, 1921 (J. W. Campbell). 
Dicranomyia reversalis, sp. n. 
General coloration yellow, the preescutum with three con- 
fluent dark brown stripes ; pleura dark brown with a large 
yellow area on the mesopleura; wings greyish subhyaline, 
stigma dark brownish black ; narrow brown seams along 
the cord; abdominal segments bicolorous, the base of each 
brown, the apex broadly yellow. 
Male.—Length about 5 mm.; wing 65 mm. 
Female.—Length about 5°5 mm. ; wing 6°6 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black. Antenne black, the flagellar 
segments of the male elongate-oval. Head grey. 
Pronotum yellow. Mesonotal przscutum obscure 
yellowish pollinose, with three confluent, dark brown 
stripes ; scutal lobes dark brown, the median area yellow ; 
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