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ceous, the base of the latter dark brown. Pleura yellowish 

 brown, sparsely variegated with darker. Halteres pale brown, 

 the base of the knobs blackened. Legs with the coxae yellowish 

 brown, darker basally ; trochanters yellowish brown ; femora 

 yellow with a little less than the apical half dark brown, en- 

 closing a conspicuous obscure yellow subterminal ring; ex- 

 treme tips of the femora pale ; tibiae brown, paler basally ; 

 tarsi brown. Wings with a strong yellow tinge and with a 

 heavy brown pattern that is in large part ocellate ; these circles 

 occur at the base of cells R and M; at origin of Rs; at r-m; at 

 the basal deflection of Cuy ; ni and the fork of M-^+2 '> solid areas 

 at stigma; r; tips of R2, R^, and slightly paler soHd areas at 

 the ends of the other longitudinal veins, those on the anal veins 

 largest ; veins dark brown. Venation : Sc^ transverse, lying 

 opposite the fork of i?2+3 ', ^ at tip of R^ ; Rs spurred ; basal 

 deflection of Cu^ either before or beyond midlength of cell 

 1st Mr, ; arculus broken. 



Abdominal tergites obscure brown, the posterior margins of 

 the segments a little paler ; sternites obscure yellow ; hypo- 

 pygium and subterminal segments brownish ; hypopygium large. 



Habitat. — New Zealand (North Island). 



Holotype, male, Ohakune, altitude 2,060 feet, November ]8, 

 1921 (T. R. Harris). 



Paratopotypes, 2 males, November 1-18, 1921. 



By Edwards's key to the New Zealand species of LUnnophila, 

 the present species runs out at couplet 6 by the combination of 

 a transverse Scn and an ocellate wing-pattern. A paratype 

 was sent to Mr. Edwards for comparison with his types of 

 LimnophUa and he reports it as being unknown to him. 



Limnophila serotina, new species. 



Female. — Length about 16 mm. ; wing 14.6 mm. 



Rostrum reddish, the palpi beyond the first segment, dark 

 brown. Antennae rather elongate for this sex, the scapal seg- 

 ments reddish, the basal three or four flagellar segments pale 

 brown, thence passing into black. Head gray. 



