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stigma very faintly indicated ; veins pale brown. Venation : 
Sc, longer than Sc, ending immediately before the end 
of Rs ; Rs rather short, gently arcuated at origin, in align- 
ment with Roi.3 3 Re subperpendicular and angulated 
origin ; 7 faint, a little more than twice its length beyond 
the fork of Ry,,; cells R3, Rs, and lst M, in alignment; a 
spur on 7-m, jutting into cell R; petiole of cell Jf, a little 
less than twice the cell; cell Ist M, elongate, gently 
widened distally ; basal deflection of Cu, near wire length of 
the caudal face of cell 1st M,; vein 2nd A ending Before the 
level of Rs. 
Abdomen dark brown. Ovipositor with the tergal valves 
usually short, very strougly upcurved, the tips acute. 
Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 
Holotype, 2? , Taihape, Wellington Province, October 14, 
POD ee Ears). 
Limnophila deviata, sp. n. 
General coloration light reddish brown; head grey ; 
halteres yellow; legs dark brown, the femoral bases narrowly 
obscure yellow; wings yellowish subhyaline ; veins R, and 
Rk, divergent, cell R, being very wide at wing-margin ; male 
hypopygium with two small pleural appendages, the outer 
one bifid at apex. 
Male.—Uength about 4°55 mm.; wing 5°6 mm, 
Female.— Length 5°6-6 mm.; wing 6°3-6°4 mm. 
Rostrum small, dark brown; palpi brownish_ black. 
Antennz short in both sexes; scapal segments obscure 
brownish yellow beneath, dark brown above ; flagellum 
dark brownish black, the segments oval. Head grey, the 
centre of the vertex slightly vaininecortiad 
Mesonotal prescutum light reddish brown without distinet 
markings ; tuberculate pits present, elongate; remainder 
of mesonotum pale reddish brown. Pleura pale brownish 
yellow. Halteres yellow. Legs with the coxe and tro- 
chanters concolorous with the pleura; remainder of legs 
dark brown, the bases narrowly obscure yellow. Wines 
yellowish subhyaline, iridescent, the base and costal margin 
paler ; stigma indistinct; veins pale brownish yellow. 
Venation: Sc, ending beyond the fork of Rs, Se, close to 
the tip of Se, and ahout equal to it; Rs long, arcuated at 
origin, in alignment with Ry.3; 7 lacking or barely indi- 
eatedn Ro13 about one-half longer than the deflection of 
R,,53 veins R, and R&R; divergent, cell R, at margin being 
only a little wider than cell Rs, cell R, correspondingly 
