neii) or I'ltth-kiinnm Ti[)uli(l;r. 509 



Rostrum and palpi black. Anteniijie black, tlie Hagollar 

 segments oval. Head dull ^rey ; a conspicuous area on the 

 vertex behind tlu; antennie covered with abundant, silver- 

 white, appressed pubescence. 



Pronotum black. Mesonotal pr:escntum j'cllow with 

 three confluent black stripes, the lateral margins of the 

 sclerite broadly yellow ; scutal lobes black, the median area 

 obscure yellow; scutcllum pale brown, sparsely grey 

 pruinosc, more Ycllowi.sh beneath ; postnotum dark, sparsely 

 pruinose. Pleura obscure yellow, the niesoplcnra very 

 faintly pruinose. Halteres l)ro\vn, the base of the stem 

 narrowly yellow, the knobs dark blown. Legs with the 

 coxfe and trochanters yellow ; remainder of the legs dark 

 brown, the femoral bases obscure yellow. Wings with a 

 uniform fulvous-brown tinge, the stigma slightly darker 

 brown ; veins dark brown. Venation : Scx ending o[)posite 

 or just beyond the origin of Rs, Sci retreated toward the 

 wing-base, 5ci slightly varial)lc in length, in the holotv])e 

 being longer than the basal deflection of /?.(+-„ in others a 

 little shorter ; basal deflection of Cui at or just before the 

 fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the sternites obscure 

 yellow ; hypopygium dark. Male hy[)<)pygium with the 

 rostriform appendage bearing two stont, snbeqnal, slightly 

 separated spines. Ovipositor with the valves elongate. 



Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 



Holotype, S, 1)»" Mt., Nelson, altitude 3000 feet, 

 January 6, 1921 {A. Philpott). 



Allot opoti/pe, ? , February 9, 1921 [R. J. Till yard). 



Paratopotype, ? . 



Type in the collection of the Cawthron Institute. 



]^icranomy'ia niullispina, sp. n. 



General coloration shiny brownish yellow ; antenna? 

 black ; head brown ; wings tinged with brown, the stigma 

 oval, darker brown ; Sc ending opposite or just beyond the 

 origin of l(s ; abdominal tergites brown or indistinctly 

 l)ieolorous ; rostriform appendage of male hypopygium with 

 a fascicle of about nine spines. 



Male. — Length 6 mm. ; wing 7 mm. 



Female. — Length 8 mm.; wing 8 mm. 



Rostrum brown, the palpi dark brown. Antenna; black. 

 Head brown. 



Pronotum dark medially. Mesonotal prjiescutum shiny 

 obscure vellow or brownish yellow, the median darker stripe 



