500 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



and lievoiul tlie stigma; veins blacU. Anal an^le of tlie 

 Ming almost lacking. ^'enalion : Sci ending a short 

 disstauce beyond the origin of lis, Sc.2 a corresi)onding 

 distance before this origin, Sc^ alone abont equal to r-jn ; 

 r a little sliortcr than the distal section of /?, ; lis feebly 

 angulated at origin, about oue-half longer than the deflection 

 of Ri+5 ; cell 1st Mi open by the atrophy of m ; basal 

 deflection of Ciii immediately beyond the fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the basal sternites paler 

 brown ; hypopygium dark. 



Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 



Huloti/pe, c^, Ohakune, altitude 2060 feet, November 10, 

 1921 (7'. R. Harris). 



Paratopotiipes, 2 c? cJ . 



It is possible that the present species is more proi)crly 

 referable to the subgenus Thrypticomyia, Skuse. 



Dicranoniyia atrovittata, sp. n. 



Head dark grey ; antennte black, the second scapal 

 segment conspicuously pale brown ; mesonotal prajscutum 

 with three brownish-black stripes, the lateral stripes 

 extending to the lateral margins of the scleritc ; pleura dark 

 brown ; femora with a pale brown subtermiual ring ; wings 

 pale yellow, the stigma nearly black ; cord, outer end of 

 cell 1^^ J/o, and vein Cu seamed with brown ; wing-tip 

 broadly infuscated ; abdomen yellow, the lateral margins 

 conspicuously and abruptly dark brown. 

 Female. — Length 9 mm. ; wing 8'5 mm. 

 Described from an alcoholic specimen. 

 Rostrum moderately elongate, but nmcli shoiter than 

 in D. hiittoyii, Edwards, dark brown, including the palpi. 

 Antennfe black, the second scapal segment conspicuously 

 paler, light brown ; second scapal segment sub|)yriform ; 

 flagellar segments oval with short necks. Head dark grey, 

 the anterior part of the vertex lighter grey. 



Pronotum dark. Mesonotal priescutum obscure reddish 

 yellow with three brownish-black stripes ; median stripe not 

 attaining the sutuie; lateral stripes crossing the suture and 

 sufl'usiug the cephalic half of the scutal lobes, these stripes 

 very broad, on the preescutum extended laterad to the 

 margin of the sclerite ; median area of scutum reddish 

 yellow, faintly and indistinctly darkened; scutellum con- 

 spicuously yellow ; postnotum dark brown on caudal half. 

 Pleura dark brown, the caudal margin of the propleura 



