562 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



Holoti/pe, (^, Lake Wakatipu, Otago, Decembei 1921 

 (F. S. Oliver). 



This interesting crane-fly is named in honour of its 

 collector. More material may give this form full specific 

 rank. 



Molophilus gourlayi, sp. n. 



General coloration brown ; antennoc of male very long ; 

 wings long and narrow, brownish grey ; cell 7?2 ^^^J short- 

 petiolate; male hypopygiura with a single small pleural 

 appendage, this terminal in position. 



Male. — Length about 3'4mm. ; wing 4*2 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi testaceous. Antennse of male very 

 long, about one-half longer than the entire body ; scape 

 pale brown; flagellum dark brown, the apical part of each 

 segment shiny black ; flagellar segments with approximately 

 the basal half enlarged and provided with conspicuous erect 

 setse, near mid-length narrowed into a slender neck. Head 

 dark, dusted with grey. 



Pronotum laterally obscure yellow. Mesonotum uniformly 

 brown. Pleura obscure broAvnish yellow. Halteres pale 

 brown. Legs with the coxse and trochanters obscure yellow; 

 remainder of the legs brown, passing into darker brown on 

 the tarsi. Wings unusually long and narrow, tinged with 

 brownish grey ; veins pale brown. Venation : cell 7?2 very 

 short-petiolate (instead of sessile, as usual in the genus) ; 

 r a little more than its length beyond the fork ; basal 

 deflection of Cui at the fork of M, transverse. 



Abdomen brown. Hypopygium with the pleurites stout, 

 with a single pleural appendage, this terminal in position, 

 broad at base, a little narrowed to the blunt apex which 

 is densely set on the mesal face with ^mall spinules. The 

 gonapophyses and penis-guard taken together appear as a 

 roughly quadrangular chitinized mass at the base of the 

 pleurites. 



Hah. New Zealand (South Island). 



Holotype, cJ, Little River, Mt. Fitzgerald, Banks Penin- 

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

 {E. S. GourlayV. 



This interesting crane-fly is named after its collector, 

 Mr. E. S. Gourlay, to whom the writer is indebted for much 

 inttresting material from Banks Peninsula and the vicinity 

 of Christchurch. The strict generic position of this very 

 isolated species must be considered as being in doubt. Tiie 

 petiolate cell R2 would place the fly near Erioptera, and it is 



