564 Dr. C. P. Alexander 0)1 



the humeral triangles of the prsescutum obscure yellow. 

 Pleura dark brown with patches of flattened white sets, 

 in the female these more delicate, hair-like, and darker. ■ 



Halteres yellow, the distal half of the stem darker. Legs " 



Avith the coxffi and trochanters concolorous with the pleura ; 

 legs of the type broken ; allotype with the legs pale brownish 

 testaceous, the terminal tarsal segments darker. Wings pale 

 brown, darker in the stigmal area, paler before the stigma 

 and cord ; macrotrichiae dark brown ; veins mostly pale. - 



Venation : Sc2 far before the origin of Rs, before mid-length I 



of Sc ; Bs square and spurred at origin ; cell No sessile or 

 extremely short-petiolate ; 7' on /?o about one and one-half 

 times its' length beyond the base : cell 1st M.y small, closed, 

 the veins beyond it elongate ; basal deflection of Cuy beyond 

 the fork of J7, subtransverse in position, vein 2nd A elon- 

 gate, ending opposite or slightly before the level of the fork 

 of Cu. 



Abdomen dark brown. Valves of the ovipositor elongate. 

 Male hypopygium with the pleurites produced into mode- 

 rately elongate, fleshy lobes that taper to the narrow tips ; 

 basai pleural appendage elongate, slender, gently arcuated, 

 the margins smooth, the tip acute. The cephalic distal 

 a]^pendage is slender, the margin microscopically serrulate. 

 Gonapopliyses approximated at l)ase, narrowed and strongly 

 arcuated to the blunt tips, which are directed laterad and 

 finally cephalad. 



Hub. New Zealand (both Islands). 



Holutypf, S, South Island, exact locality unknown, but 

 possibly Blackball, Westland (J. TV. Campbell). 



Allohji e. ? , Mt.Ruapehu, North Island, altitude 3700 feet, 

 January 6, 19.22 (M. A'. Wall). 



Amphineurus nox, sp. n. 



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

 Closely related to A. campbelli, difiering as follows : — 

 General coloration black. Rostrum and palpi black. 

 Antenna; broken beyond the scape. Pronotum conspicuously 

 yellow, only narrowly darker in the middle. jSIesonotum 

 black, the prsescutum with each humeral angle obscure 

 vellow, this elongate-triangular area enclosing the pseudo- 

 sutural foveae. Pleura black, with a small yellow spot on 

 the mesepimeron. Halteres broken. Legs with the fore 

 coxee black, the other coxae brown ; remainder of the legs 

 brown. Wings broad, pale brown with conspicuous dark 

 brown macrotrichia3. Venation : Rs long, almcst square at 



