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3 species, one of which is also recorded from the Nearctic, 

 perhaps erroneously ; Oriental, 6 species, described by Brunetti 

 and Edwards. No species had been recorded from the Ethi- 

 opian or Australasian regions. It was with great interest, 

 therefore, that the writer received specimens of a very inter- 

 esting Dixa from New Zealand. This new species is dedicated 

 to the collector. Dr. J. W. Campbell, to whom I am indebted 

 for many kindnesses in the past. The alcoholic types are in 

 the writer's collection ; paratypes will be sent to the Canter- 

 bury Museum. 



Dixa campbelli, new species. 



General coloration yellow, handsomely marked with dark 

 brown ; legs yellow, tips of the femora and tibiae darkened ; tips 

 of posterior tibi^ enlarged ; wings faintly grayish ; a conspic- 

 uous dark brov/n blotch at r-m and another on vein M; r-m 

 connecting with Rs before its fork. 



Male. — Length 2.8-3 mm. ; wing 3.3-3.5 mm. 



Described from alcoholic material. 



Rostrum brown above, paler laterally and beneath ; palpi 

 pale brown. Antennae with the enlarged scapal segments dark 

 brown, the fiagellum a little paler, especially the basal segment. 

 Head dark brown, paler beneath and on gense. 



Pronotum obscure yellow, dark brown medially. Mesonotum 

 yellow, handsomely marked with dark brown ; a broad, con- 

 spicuous stripe on either side ; a narrower median stripe, broad 

 in front and here indistinctly split by a pale vitta, narrowed 

 behind (in some cases this abrupt narrowed portion subobso- 

 lete), extending to the scutal region where it covers the caudal 

 margin of the scierite ; scutellum light yellow, indistinctly mar- 

 gined with darker; postnotum dark brown. Pleura yellow, 

 conspicuously striped and blotched with dark brown ; meso- 

 sternum broadly dark brown, pale ventro-medially, more broadly 

 so on prosternum ; a conspicuous, longitudinal pleural stripe 

 extending from behind the fore coxse to the mesepimeron 

 which is largely suffused ; the ventral yellow stripe formed 

 between this stripe and the mesosternum is narrower than the 



