new or litUc-known Tiptilidie. 1-41) 



capillary median line dark brown; wings suljliyalinc, con- 

 s|)icn()usly spotted with brown ; cell \st M^ closed or open, 

 the venation in this region inconstant. 



Male. — Length 7-7'5 mra. ; wing 8*8-10 mm. 



Female. — Length about 5 mm.; wing about G mm. 



Rostrum obscure yellow ; palpi dark brown. Autenn;c 

 brownish black. Head grey. 



Mesonotal prrescutum bufl'y yellow witli three brownish- 

 grey stripes, tlie interspaces and a capillary median line dark 

 brown; scutal lobes brown; scutellum yellow, the base 

 darker ; postnotum grey. Pleura greyish with a short 

 yellowish longitudinal stripe ending immediately before the 

 haltcres ; (U)rso-pleural area obscure yellow. Halteres pale, 

 the knobs slightly darker. Legs with the coxse and tro- 

 chanters obscure yellow ; remainder of the legs obscure 

 yellow, the terminal tarsal segments infuscated. Wings 

 subhyalinc, conspicuously spotted with brown as follows : — 

 Origin of Rs; at St'g ; along the cord and outer end of cell 

 \st 3/2 ; small but distinct clouds at the ends of the longi- 

 tudinal veins ; veins dark brown. Venation : Sc^ ending 

 opposite the fork of R^^z-i ^^2 ^ short distance beyond the 

 origin oi Rs; r on R., a short distance beyond its origin ; 

 cell \st M2 closed or open ; when closed, m is short, trans- 

 verse, the outer deflection of iV/3 in one wing of the paratype 

 elongated and rectangularly bent near mid-length ; in the 

 holotype, the right wing has cell \st J/j confluent with cell 

 2n(l j/o by the atro|)hy of m, the left wing has both m and 

 the deflection of M^ atrophied so that the distal section of 

 lUg lies free in the meinbrane as in certain Bleijharoceridie : 

 these unstable conditions indicate an inconstant venation 

 for the species ; basal deflection of Cu^ oblique, some dis- 

 tance before the fork of M. 



Abdomen dark brown, the lateral margins of the segments 

 broadly, the caudal margins more narrowly, yellowish ; 

 hypopygium brownish yellow. Male hypoj)ygium somewhat 

 as in T. confluens, but the gouapophyses are shorter and 

 more strongly curved. 



Hub. New Zealand (South Island). 



Holotype, ^, Sprevdon, Canterbury, December 1920 

 (/. W. Campbell). 



Allotype, alcoholic ? , Riccarton Bush, Christchurch, 

 Canterbury, 1921 {E. S. Gourlay). 



Paratype, St Old Man Range, Central Otago, January 

 1920 [Geo. Howes). 



