new or Jilth-hnmon Tijiulidre. 507 



brown ; tarsi brown. Wings tinged with yellow, the base, 

 and cells T and ,S'f brighter ; a lieavy, uon-oeellate, brown 

 pattern distributed as follows : at h ; bases of cells R and M, 

 extending to the costal margin ; at origin of Rs, extending 

 to C ; end of Sc ; conspicuous seams along cord and outer 

 end of cell \st Mo; spots at forks of -Ro+s ''^'itl M^^^ and at 

 ends of all the longitudinal veins, very large at the ends of 

 the anal veins ; most of the longitudinal veins seamed with 

 brown ; veins brown, darker in the infuscated areas. 

 Venation : Sc^ longer than Sci ; Rs elongate ; r about one 

 and one-half times its length from tip of /?] ; cell J/j one- 

 half longer than its petiole ; cell 1st Mo small, widened 

 distally ; basal deflection of Cui very long and sinuous, 

 ol)lique, its origin proximad of the level of the fork of M 

 its apex only a short distance from the outer end of cell 

 1*/ J/j ; cell 27id A comparatively long and narrow; anterior 

 arculus atrophied. 



Abdominal tergites orange-yellow, the extreme lateral 

 margins of the basal segments with tiny black dots; ster- 

 nites similar, with a tiny black dot at the latero-cephalic 

 angle of each sclerite. Elongate tergal valves of the ovi- 

 positor dark brown. 



Hub. New Zealand (North Island) . 



Holotype, alcoholic ? , Palmerston N,, Wellington Pro- 

 vince, December 1921. 



In spite of the non-ocellate character of its wing-pattern, 

 Limnophilu obliquata is most nearly related to L. argus and 

 allied species. 



Limnophila {Metalimnophila) simjjlicis, sp. n, 



Male hypopygium simple in structure, the apical mesal 

 angle of the pieurite not produced into a lobe; eighth stcr- 

 nite without a ehitinized comb ; outer pleural appendage 

 with a ehitinized spine on margin before apex. 



Male. — Length 7 mm., wing 7"3 mm. 



Described from an alcoholic specimen. 



Kostrum brown, the palpi darker. Antennae elongate ; 

 scape brownish yellow^ ; flagellum dark brown, the incisures 

 very narrowly and indistinctly pale. Head dark brown 

 above, much brighter beneath. 



Mesonotum brownish yellow, the prfescutum with three 

 darker brown stripes ; scutal lobes and base of scutclluni 

 brown. Pleura yellow with a dorsal, brown, longitudinal 

 stripe as in the subgenus. Hal teres pale. Legs with the 

 coxne yellow; trochanters brownish yellow ; remainder of 



