new or litUe-known Tipuliihe. IKi 



ventral and dorsal dnrk lonjjitudiiial stri|)c cnclosinpf a clear 

 ashen-f^rey area, llalteres pale. Legs with tlic coxic dark, 

 dusted with grey ; trochanters obscure yellow, margined 

 apically with brown ; reniainder of tlie legs dark brown. 

 Wings greyisli yellow, clearer yellow basally, the stignial 

 area barely indicated ; veins pale brown. Venation : ,SVi 

 ending just before the end of lis, Sc^ a little more than its 

 len^^th from ti[) ; lis long, arcuated at extreme origin; Rj^z 

 short, about ctpial to the basal deflection of R^^_r, ; r faint, 

 about three times its length from tip of Ri ; cell 2nd /?, a 

 little wider at wing-margin than cell A', ; cell 1*/ il/g small, 

 rectangular ; petiole of cell 3/j very long, from one to two 

 times the length df the cell ; basal deflection of Cui at or 

 just beyond the fork of M; arculus complete. 



Abdomen dark brown, including the liypopygium ; each 

 ])leural appendage elongate. ta2)ering to the acute point. 

 Ovipositor with elongate valves, as in this group of species. 



Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 



Holotype, ^, Mt. Grey, Canterbury, altitude 1200- 

 1.500 feet, November 27, 1921 {J. U\ Campbell and Stuart 

 Li ml say). 



Allotopotype, ? . 



"On undergrowth in beech forest." 



Limnophila truncata, sp. n. 



Mesonotum obscure yellow, scutal lobes and anterior half 

 of postnotum brownish black ; wings nearly hyaline with a 

 brown spot at origin of lis and scanis along the cord and 

 outer end of cell \sl M^ ; r near tip of Ry ; petiole of cell J/j 

 short ; basal deflection of Cu^ near njid-length of cell Is/ il/j ; 

 abdominal s"gments bicolorous ; hypopygium compressed, 

 ul>li(|uely truncated. 



Mate. — Length o'5 mm. ; wing 72 mm. 



Ko>trum yellow, pal|)i brownish black. Antennae short ; 

 basal segment of scape obscure yellow ; remainder of antenna 

 brownish black; flagellar segments elongate-oval with short 

 verticils. Anterior part of vertex brownish yellow, the 

 remainder of head brownish grey. 



Mesonotal |)rie>eutum brownish yellow witli three clearer 

 yellow stripes that arc very ill-defined ; median stripe split 

 by a capillary dark brown line that becomes obliterated 

 before the suture ; scutum obscure brownish yellow, the 

 lobes conspicuously dark brown ; scutellum pale brownish 

 testaceous ; j)Ostnotum brownish black on the cephalic half, 

 the posterior hail pale brown. I'lcura brownish yellow 



