new or Utlle-knoicn Tipulidae. 309 



Limnophila maorica, sp. n. 



General coloration reddish brown; antennae of male nearly 

 as long as bod}'; wings with a faint brown tinge; stigma and 

 a faint seam along r-m darker brown; r near tip of R]-, 

 7^2+3 short; basal deflection of Cui near one-fourth the 

 length of cell \st M.,; male hypopygium with a long slender 

 spine at base of dorsal face of pleurite. 



Mate. — Length 4*G-5 mm.; wing r>'3-G*5 mm. 



Female. — Length 6"3 mm.;, wing 7'3 mm. 



Rostrum obscure yellow; palpi brownish black. Antennae 

 of the male elongated, only a little shorter than the body; 

 seapal segments obscure brownish yellow ; flagellum black, 

 the segments elongate-cylindrical. Head dark brown, the 

 occiput and genre more rufous. 



Mesonotum uniform reddish brown, the praescutal inter- 

 spaces with a iew erect black setae. Pleura obscure 

 brownish yellow. Halteres elongate, dark brown. Legs 

 with the coxic and trochanters obscure brownish yellow; 

 femora dark brown, the bases testaceous; remainder of the 

 legs brownish black; tibial spurs small, reddish. Wings 

 with a very faint brown tinge; siigma oval, pale brown; a 

 pale brown seam along r-m and the deflection of /?4+5 ; veins 

 dark brown with a!)uudant macrotrichiae; a shiny black 

 callus on the wing-root. Venation: Sc long, Sci ending 

 beyond the fork of I'-2j^z, Sc2 about one and one-half times 

 its length from tip; Bs long, strongly angulated at orii;in ; 

 i?2+3 short, approximately equal to the deflection of A^+s, 

 this length somewhat variable ; r about its own length from 

 the tip of /?i; inner ends of cells jf?3, /?g, and 1st Mc^ in oblique 

 alignment; petiole of cell M^ about equal to or longer than 

 t!ie second section of 3/i^2 ; wi with macrotrichiae, arcuated, 

 usually about one-half longer than the outer deflection of 

 3/3; cell \st M.2 elongate; basal deflection of Cwi near one- 

 fourth the lower face of cell \st M.^; arculus broken. 



Abdominal tcrgites dark brown, the basal half or less 

 indistinctly paler; steruites obscure brownish yellow, the 

 apices narrowly darker; hypopygium obscure yellow. Male 

 hypopygium with the pleuiites slender, the apex of each 

 produced into a small chitinized point; two apical ])lcural 

 appendages, the outer terminating in a slender chitinized 

 point ; at the base of the pleurites on the dorsal face a con- 

 spicuous chitinized rod that extends caudad into an acicular, 

 feebly curved point. Penis-guard and gonapophyses fused 

 into a conspicuous median structure. Anal tube distinct. 

 Ovipositor ^ith the valves elongate, the tergal valves acicular. 



