new or little-known TipulicUu. o'lO 



of cell 3/3 lies a little proximad of that of cell Cu^-, vein 

 2n(l A lying opposite the fork of Cii. 



Abdomen dark brown, the incisures conspicuously pale (in 

 alcoholic material). Male hypopygium with the ventral 

 pleural appendage long and slender, straight, blackened 

 almost to the base, the distal third with appressed Init con- 

 spicuous chitinized teeth ; a})ex of each pleurite produced, 

 into a stout, more or less dcourved hook. 



Hub. New Zealand (South Island). 



Holotype, ^^ xMt. Fitzgerald, Little River, Banks Penin- 

 sula, Canterbury, altitude 1500 feet, January 24, 1922 

 {E. S. Guurlay). 



Paratopotype, (^ . 



Associated with .1/. luteipyyus^ Alex., the two species 

 preyed upon by a small Empidid fly. 



Molophilus pictiplewa, sp. n. 



General coloration brown ; anteunre short ; su))lateral 

 margins of prccscutum dark brown ; pleura yellow with two 

 conspicuous, dark brown, longitudinal stripes ; wings broad, 

 light grey, highly iridescent ; basal section of lio+z 1<>"g5 

 angulated before mid-lcngtli ; male hypopygium with the 

 basal pleural appendage small, straight, feebly denticulate 

 near apex. 



Male. — Length about 3 mm.; wing 3"8 mm. 



Antennai short. Head injured in the unique type. 



iNIesonotal prjescutum light yellowish brown, margined 

 sublaterally with dark brown, the lateral margins broadly 

 light yellow. Pleura yellow with a broad dorsal and a nar- 

 rower ventral dark brown longitudinal stripe, the dorsal 

 stripe about as broad as the yellow stripe ventrad of it. 

 Ilaltercs yellow, the knobs broken. Legs with the eoxfc 

 and trochanters yellow ; remainder of the legs broken. 

 ^Vings broad, light grey, highly iridescent, the base and the 

 region of the cord faintly infuscated ; veins pale. Venation : 

 basal section of ^^2+3 long, angulated before mid-length ; 

 petiole of cell 1U3 a little shorter than the basal section of 

 A/j^oJ vein 2nd A feebly sinuous, ending about opposite 

 one-fourth the length of the petiole of cell M^. 



Abdomen dark brown. ^lale hypopygium with the basal 

 pleural appendage small, straight, stout at base, narrowed to 

 the subacute apex which is feebly denticulate ; distal pleural 

 appendage large, the mesal lobe long and straight, acute, 

 the lateral lobe broader, slightlv widened distallv. 



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