94 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



testaceous. Halteres eloujjato, pale brown, the knobs dark 

 brown. Legs M'ith the coxte and trochanters yellowish testa- 

 ceous ; femora dark brown, the bases broadly paler, most 

 extensively on the fore legs Avhere more than the basal half 

 is pale, least extensively on the posterior legs where less than 

 tl>e basal third is pale; tilnaj and tarsi black. Wings nearly 

 liyaliue, with a sparse brown pattern ; stigma oval, dark 

 brown ; a brown spot of origin of lis ; a brown seam along 

 the cord, beginning at Sc2, continued across the fork of -Rg+s 

 to the basal detlection of Ciii ; a brown seam along the outer 

 end of cell 1st M^. Venation : Sc2 considerably longer than 

 *S'ci, just beyond the fork of i^o+3 ; Rs long, arcuated at 

 origin; i^2+3 fibout one-half longer than the basal deflection 

 of Cux ; r about one and one-half its length from the tip of 

 Ri and on R^ beyond mid-length ; cells R^, R^, and Isi M^ 

 in alignment ; cell M^ deep, its petiole about equal to Ro+z ; 

 m shorter than outer deflection of M ^ ; basal deflection of 

 Cuy at or just before mid-length of the caudal face of cell 

 \st M2; cell 2nd A long and narrow; anterior arculus 

 atrophied. Wings petiolate. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the basal half of tergite 

 2 pale ; tergites 2 to 7 conspicuously ringed caudally with 

 pale yellow ; tergites 8 and 9 dark brown ; sternites obscure 

 yellow, less than the basal half of each segment infuscated. 

 Hy popygium compressed, viewed laterally appearing obliquely 

 truncated. 



Hub. New Zealand (South Island). 



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

 1500 feet, November 27, 1921 {J. W. Campbell and Stuart 

 Lindsay). 



" On undergrowth in beech forest." 



Limnophila (^Metalimnophila) unipuncta^ sp. n. 



Allied to L. producta, Alexander; wings with a faint 

 brown tinge ; stigma brown ; a narrow brown seam along 

 r-m ; male hypopygium with the mesal apical angle of each 

 pleurite produced into a stout lobe that is nearly as long as 

 the pleurite itself ; outer pleural appendage simple ; inner 

 pleural appendage strongly bent at mid-length. 



Male. — Length about 5 mm. ; wing 6 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae elongate, black. 

 Head dark brown. 



Mesonotal prsescutum light brown with three darker 

 brown stripes ; scutum pale brown, the centre of the lobes 

 dark brown ; scutellum and postnotum brownish grey. 



