new or litth-known Tipulidse. 9.') 



ritura silvery frrev, the pleural stripe very hniail, brf)wnisli 

 black; sides of niesosteriium faintly darkened, Ilalteres 

 brown, the base of stem and apex of knob pale. \Vings with 

 a faint brown tinge ; stigma elongate, brown; a narrow but 

 conspicuous dark brown seam ou r-rn and the basal deflec- 

 tion of /?4+5 ; veins dark brown. Venation : Sc, near tip of 

 Sci and about twice the length of the latter; petiole of cell 

 3/1 one-half longer than the cell. 



Abdomen daik brown, the caudal margins of the basal 

 segments very faintly paler. Male hypopygium with the 

 ninth tergite having two slender parallel lobes. INIesal face 

 of pleurite produced into a very large flattened lobe, the 

 mcsal a{)ieal angle produced into a second lobe that is nearly 

 as long as the pleurite but stout, broad at l)ase, gradually 

 nariowed to the blunt apex, this lobe much longer than in 

 L. howesi, but siiorter than in L. pruducta; outer pleural 

 appendage a long, curved, simple blade, bearing long setse on 

 the outer face before the apex ; inner pleural appendage 

 slender, very strongly arcuated at mid-length. Spines of 

 the eighth sternite arising from a pedunculate base. 



Hub. New Zealand (South Island). 



Holotype, ^, Dunedin, Otago, November 26, 1921 

 (G. Hotves). 



Paraiype, J, Ben Lomond, Otago, December 30, 1921 

 (G. Howes). 



Macromastix pallidistigma, sp, u. 



Mesonotum uniformly reddish brown, unmarked ; wings 

 pale greyish ; cells C and Sc brown ; stigma large, pale 

 cream-yellow ; jictiole of cell My longer than ni ; cell 2nd A 

 long and narrow ; abdomen pale greenish brown ; ninth 

 tergite of male hypopygium with a broad, U-shaped, median 

 notch, the lol)es short, obtusely rounded. 



Male. — Length 9 mm. ; wing ILS mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head long, pale, sparsely 

 ])ruinose, the nasus long and broad. Antenna) very small ; 

 first scapal segment pale, second segment pale green ; 

 tlagellum brown, the basal segments tinged with green, the 

 terminal segments uniformly dark. Head pale biown, 

 sparsely dusted with grey. 



Pronotum tinged with green. Mesonotal praescutum 

 uniformly reddish brown, unmarked ; scutum similar, the 

 lateral margins of the lobes dark ; scutellum and postnotum 

 a little paler, es|)ecially the foruur. Pleura obscure yellow, 

 Ilalteres tiugcd with green. Legs with the coxie coucolorous 



