new or little-known Tipulidee. 515 
lobes contiguous on the median line ; apex of each pleurite 
produced into a long slender arm directed mesad and 
slightly caudad, longer than the pleurite itself, the apex 
slightly enlarged ; two pleural appendages, the outermost 
bifid, bearing a conspicuous lobule before the apex ; inner 
appendage a flattened, irregular, pale blade. Gonapophyses 
appearing as long, slender, straight, divergent rods. Eighth 
sternite with two narrow convergent rows of black spines, 
there being about a dozen small spines in each row. Ovi- 
positor with the tergal valves very short and strongly 
upcurved, the ventral margin at base microscopically 
serrulate. 
fab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, &, Dunedin, Otago, November 5, 1921 
(G. Howes). 
Allotupotype, 2 . 
Paratopotypes, 2 § G6, with the type; 6 ¢@¢, 1 2, 
November 26, 1921. 
Limnophila (Metalimnophila) nigroapicata, sp. n. 
Antenne elongate; general coloration grey; mesonotal 
prescutum with three brown stripes; pleura with a dark 
brown longitudinal stripe ; halteres elongate, light yellow ; 
femora and tibiz yellow, conspicuously tipped with black ; 
wings yellowish subhy aline, veins pale; siigma very faintly 
indicated ; ots comparatively short ; abdomen dark brown ; 
tergal valves of ovipositor very sort and strongly upcurved. 
emale.—Length 7°2 mm.; wing 7°8 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black. Antenne elongate for the 
female sex, dark brown; flagellar se:ments elongate ; the 
antennee of the male are undoubtedly elongate. Head yel- 
lowish grey. 
Mesonotal preescutum yellowish grey with three con- 
spicuous brown stripes, the median stripe feebly bisected 
by a paler line; cephalic margin of prascutum narrowly 
dark brown ; tuberculate pits lacking ; scutum light grey, 
the lobes darker grey; scutellum almost white ; postnotum 
grey. Pleura grey ; a conspicuous dark brown longitudinal 
stripe extending from the cervical sclerites, dorsad of the 
fore coxa, to the postnotum. MHalteres elongate, light 
yellow. Legs with the coxz yellow, the fore cox infus- 
cated; trochanters obscure yellow ; femora obscure yellow, 
the tips narrowly blackened ; tibize and metatarsi yellowish 
testaceous, the tips more narrowly blackened ; remainder 
of the tarsi brownish black. Wings yellowish subhyaline ; 
