new or little-known Tipulidee. 52 
brownish hind tibize covered with uniform dark brown 
pubescence, the pale ring being ou the integument only ; 
in nivercincta the sete, as well as the integument, are pale. 
G. formosa, Hutton, is represented in the writer’s collection 
by a male; it is a very different fly, with the tibial ring ill- 
defined, broad, and orange-yellow in colour. 
Me Ce ied . 
Tricyphona nove-zelandia, sp. 0 
General coloration obscure yellowish brown ; mesonotal 
prescutum with four narrow dark brown strip s; wings 
with a brown tinge, the stigma a little darker; cell R, long- 
petiolate ; cell R, short-petiolate ; cell ls¢ M, closed ; cell 
M, sessile or very short- petiolate. 
Male.—Length 6 mm.; wing 8°6 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennze 16-segmented, 
the scapal segments pale brown ; flagellum black ; flagellar 
segments oval. Head dark brown with a sparse bloom, 
leaving blotches of the ground-colour exposed. 
Mesonotal preescutum light yellowish brown with four 
conspicuous dark brown stripes, the intermediate pair 
separated from one another by a line of the ground-colour 
that is nearly one-half the width of either stripe ; scutum 
brown, indistinctly greyish medially ; scutellum and _ post- 
notum pale brown with an indistinct pruinosity. Pleura 
brown with a sparse, microscopic, appressed pubescence that 
appears like a pruinosity ; a varrow, dark brown, dorsal stripe 
extending from the propleura to ventrad of the wing-root. 
Halteres ‘pale, the base of the stem yellow, the knobs infus- 
cated. Juegs with the cox obscure yellow, infuscated 
basally; trochauters obscure yellow; femora pale brown, 
the tips scarcely darkened ; tibize and metatarsi pale brown, 
the tips narrowly darker brown; remainder of the tarsi 
dark brown. Wings with a brown tinge; cells C and Se 
more saturated ; stigma darker brown, but its limits ill- 
defined ; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc, before the 
origin of Rs a distance approximately as long as cell lst M, ; 
Rs strongly arcuated at origin; /t,,3 elongate, the outer 
deflection of A, a little more than its own length from the 
tip of R,,o, without macrotriclie ; A,,; a little shorter than 
—m ; r—-m on Ry; immediately beyond its origin ; cell M, 
short-petiolate or sessile, m in this case being exactly at the 
fork of M,,.; m about one-third the outer deflection of M7; ; 
basal deflection of Cu, about oue-fourth its length beyoud 
the fork of M; M;+ Cu, alittle more than one-half the outer 
deflection of M3. 
Ann, & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. ix. dt 
