new or little-known 'Tipulidee. 51L 
light yellow. Legs with the coxee and trochanters obscure 
yellowish testaceous ; remainder of the legs very pale 
brownish yellow, only the terminal tarsal segments conspicu- 
ously infuscated. Wings with a strong yellowish tinge ; 
veins pale brown, Se, R, R,,5, and Cu more yellowish. 
Venation: basal deflection of Cu, one-half longer than the 
deflection of M;,, and conspicnously arcuated ; vein 2nd A 
elongate, ending opposite mid-length of the acl detlection 
of Cu. 
Abdomen dark brown, the hypopyginm obscure lght 
yellow. Male hypopygium with the basal pleural appendage 
a long straight rod, enlarged at base, the apex somewhat 
pomted, the apical quarter of the appendage sparsely pro- 
vided with weak spines. Apical appendage a similar straight 
arm, the apex bifid by a deep U-shaped notch, the mesal arm 
a conspicuous, nearly straight, black spine, the lateral arm 
stouter, at its tip bent at an angle into a conspicuous spine 
directed mesad to almost touch the mesal arm ; apex of 
pleurite on mesal side produced into a slender chitinized 
spine. 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, 3, Dunedin, Otago, November 5, 1921 (G. 
Howes). 
Allotopotype, 2. 
Paratopotypes, 4 3 3, November 26—December 14, 1921 ; 
paratypes, 2 6 6, 1 &, Waipori, December 5, 1921 (G. 
Howes); 2 8 3, Mt. Fitsgerald, Banks Peninsula, Canter- 
bury, January 24, 1922 (B. S. Gour lay); R. R. 
Molophilus terminans, sp. n. 
General coloration dark brown, the humeral region of the 
preescutum obscure yellow ; antenne short; halteres yellow ; 
male hypopygium with the two pleural appendages terminal 
in position. 
Male.—Length about 3 mm. ; wing 4°8 mm. 
Female.—Length about 4 mm. ; wing 5 mm, 
Rostrum and “palpi dark brown. Antenne short, dark 
brown. Head greyish brown with conspicuous yellow setee. 
Mesonotum dark brown, the humeral triangle obscure 
yellow ; lateral margins of preescutum narrowly yellow ; 
remainder of the mesonotum paler brown. Pleura brown. 
Halteres conspicuously light yellow, the knobs very bright. 
Legs with the coxe and trochanters pale brownish 
testaceous ; femora pale brown ; tibize and tarsi dark brown. 
Wings with a faint yellowish-brown tinge ; veins pale brown, 
