new or h'liJe-known Ti[juliilae. 153 



ends of cells R^, R^, and 1.9/ M., about in alignment; fell 

 1^/ M2 small, pentagonal ; cell Mi only a little shorter than 

 its petiole; basal deflection of Cui rather close to the fork 

 of M, at about one-sixth the length of cell \st M,. 



Abdomen dark brown. Ovipositor dark horn-colour, 

 elongate-acicular. 



Ilab. New Zealand (North Island). 



Holotijpe, $ , Mt. Ruapehu, alpine zone, altitude 4000- 

 5000 ft., January 1921 (3/. .V. Walt). 



"Collected in thick bush." 



Limnophila watti is named in honour of the collector, 

 ^Tr. Morris N. Watt, to whom the writer is indebted for 

 many fine crane-flies from the alpine zones of Mts. Egmont 

 and Riiapehu. 



Limnophila ruapehuensis, sp. n. 



General coloration yellow ; mesonotal prtescutum with 

 indistinct darker stripes ; head yellow; legs yellow^only the 

 terminal tarsal segments darkened ; wiugs light yellow, 

 r very indistinct, far from the tip of Bi ; cell Mi small, only 

 about one-half the length of its petiole. 



Female. — Length 6 mm. ; wing 6'2-6*3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown, 

 the basal segment paler. Head with a brownish-yellow 

 pollen. 



]\Iesonotum with a brownish-yellow pollen, the prsescutum 

 with three very faint darker stripes, the humeral region 

 yellowish ; tuberculate pits as in L. watti, elongate, situated 

 far caudad and lying close together". Pleura yellow, the 

 dorsal pleurites marked with brown. Halteres yellow. 

 Legs with the cox?e and trochanters yelloAv ; remainder of 

 the legs yellow, the terminal tarsal segments infuscated. 

 Wings light yellow ; veins brownish yellow. Venation : 

 Sci about twice the length of Sc^ ; R2+3 shorter than the 

 deflection of i?4+5 ; r very indistinct, far removed from the 

 tip of i?i ; cell J/j small, about one-half the length of its 

 petiole ; basal deflection of Cui at about one-fifth the length 

 of cell \st M2. 



Abdominal segments distinctly annulated, the basal two- 

 fifths or less of each segment dark brown, the distal three- 

 fiftlis or more yellowish. Ovipositor elongate, yellowish 

 horn-colour. 



Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 



Holotype, ? , Mt. Ruapehu, alpine zone, altitude 4000- 

 5000 ft., January 1921 (J/. X Watt). 



