new or little-known Tipulidee. 517 
widened; inner ends of cells R3, R;, and 1st M, in oblique 
alignment ; cell M, small, about one-half the length of its 
petiole ; cell 1s¢ M, small, the basal deflection of Cu, near 
one-third its length; vein 2nd A ending nearly opposite 
the origin of Rs. 
Abdomen dark brown. Male hypopygium with two small 
pleural appendages, the outer appendage chitinized, with a 
small spine immediately before the slender apex; inner 
pleural appendage a little shorter, slender, fleshy. Ovi- 
positor with the tergal valves elongate, gently upcurved. 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, 3, Greymouth, sea-level, September 7, 1921 
(POR. Harris). 
Allotopotype, 2 , September 6, 1921. 
Paratopotype, 2 , September 7, 1921. 
Limnophila exclusa, sp. 0. 
Mesonotum yellowish grey with three dark brown stripes ; 
antennee short ; pleura light grey ; wings tinged with yellow, 
sparsely marked with brown ; R,,; long; cell M, lacking. 
Male.—Length 11 mm.; wing 11 mm. 
Female.—Length 12 mm.; wing 105 mm. 
Rostruin and palpi black. “ Antenne short, the basal seg- 
ment dark pruinose. Head grey, tle centre of the vertex 
extensively infuscated, restricting the ground-colour to 
narrow margins adjoining the eyes. : 
Mesonotal preescutum yellowish grey with three conspicuous 
dark brown stripes, the median stripe split caudally; scutum 
and scutellum light grey, the scutal lobes infuscated ; post- 
notum light grey. Pleura light grey. Halteres yellow. 
Legs with the coxee obscure yellow, sparsely pruinose ; tro- 
chanters obscure yellow; femora and tibiz brown, the tips 
passing into black ; metatarsi dark brown, the tips blackened ; 
tarsi black. Wings with a yellowish tinge, more saturated 
at the base and in the costal region ; stigma conspicuous, 
brown; a brown seam at origin of Rs; narrow brown seams 
along the cord and outer end of cell ls¢ M2; in the type 
the outer end of cell /, is strongly infuscated; vein Cu and 
the wing-margin less distinctly infuscated; veins dark 
brown, more yellowish in the costal region. Venation: Sc, 
ending just before the end of Rs, Sc, at the tip of Sc, ; Rs 
long, angulated and spurred at origin; R.,3 long, only a 
little shorter than R,; ra little more than its length from 
the tip of R, and on R, less than its length beyond the fork 
of R,,3; cells 23, R;, and 1st M, in oblique alignment ; 
