new or little-known Tipulide. 509 
Rostrum and palpi black. Antenne black, the flagellar 
segments oval. Head dull grey ; a conspicuous area on the 
vertex behind the antenne covered with abundant, silver- 
white, appressed pubescence, 
Pronotum black. Mesonotal prescutum yellow with 
three confluent black stripes, the lateral margins of the 
sclerite broadly yellow ; scutal lobes black, the median area 
obscure yellow; scutellum pale brown, sparsely grey 
pruinose, more yellowish beneath ; postnotum dark, sparsely 
pruinose. Pleura obscure yellow, the mesopleura very 
faintly pruinose. Halteres brown, the base of the stem 
narrowly yellow, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the 
cox and trochanters yellow; remainder of the legs dark 
brown, the femoral bases obscure yellow. Wings with a 
uniform fulvous-brown tinge, the stigma slightly darker 
brown ; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc, ending opposite 
or just beyond the origin of Rs, Sc. retreated toward the 
wing-base, Sc, slightly variable in length, m the holotype 
being longer than the basal deflection of R,,;, in others a 
little shorter ; basal deflection of Cu, at or just before the 
fork of M. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the sternites obscure 
yellow; hypopygium dark. Male hypopygium with the 
rostriform appendage bearing two stout, subequal, slightly 
separated spines. Ovipositor with the valves elongate. 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, 6, Dun Mt., Nelson, altitude 3000 feet, 
_January 6, 1921 (A. Philpott). 
Allotopotype, 2, February 9, 1921 (R. J. Tillyard). 
Paratopotype, 2. 
Type in the collection of the Cawthron Institute. 
Dicranomyia multispina, sp. n. 
General coloration shiny brownish yellow ; antenne 
black ; head brown ; wings tinged with brown, the stigma 
oval, darker brown ; Se ending opposite or just beyond the 
origin of fs; abdominal tergites brown or indistinctly 
bicolorous ; rostriform appendage of male hypopygium with 
a fascicle of about nine spines. 
Male.—Length 6 mm. ; wing 7 mm. 
Female.—Length 8 mm.; wing 8 mm. 
Rostrum brown, the palpi dark brown. Antenne black. 
Head brown. 
Pronotum dark medially. Mesonotal preescutum shiny 
obseure vellow or brownish yellow, the median darker stripe 
