276 Transactions. 
veins all dark; wing-tip in female with a scarcely perceptible darkening. 
Rs sometimes obtusely angulated. Halteres ochreous with dark knob, 
Length of body, 5-5-8 mm.; wing, 7-9 mm. 
Nort IstAND: Tamaki, 10th August, 1917 (A. E. Brookes), type male 
and one female; New Plymouth, 23rd September, 1906 (W. Wesché), 
one female; Wellington(?) (G. V. Hudson, No. 13E), one female — all in 
female, in Mr. Miller's collection. Sourn Istanp: Otago (Osten-Sacken), 
three females, in Berlin-Dahlem Museum, labelled “ monilicornis O.-S.,” 
in Osten-Sacken’s handwriting. 
Dicranomyia crassipes n. sp. (Fig. 16.) 
. Differs from D. cubitalis as follows: Head without dark median 
line. Proboscis (including labella) more than half as long again as head. 
Thorax and abdomen darker, abdomen without distinct lateral and median 
lines. Legs, especially femora, considerably stouter. Wing-tip distinctly 
darkened. Base of Rs thickened. 
Мовтн Istanp: Karori, Wellington, in bush, November, 1920 (G. V. 
Hudson, No. 73); type temale (unique) in British Museum. 
Dicranomyia huttoni n. name. (Fig. 15.) 
Geranomyia annulipes Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 35; 1900 
(nec Dicranomyia annulipes Skuse, 1889). 
up. 
IstaNp: Wellington (Hudson [according to Hutton]) ; Te Wairoa, 
ing Mr. D. Miller’s 
Dicranomyia melanogramma n. sp. (Figs. 13, 128.) 
Head dark-greyish. Front very narrow, not one-tenth as broad as 
head. Proboscis, palpi, and antennae blackish-brown, scape lighter. Pr 
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boscis nearly half as long again as head. Flagellar joints in male with 
long necks, slightly longer than joints, which, however, are very prominent 
ventrally, with rounded tips directed. somewhat forwards ; the verticil- 
hairs on upper surface of each joint somewhat longer than the whole joint, 
including neck, those on under-surface are short ; last joint long and slender, 
as long as the two preceding joints together. In female antennae are 
orter, necks less than half as long as the more oval joints. Thorax 
ochreous-brown, somewhat shining: an indistinct median dark stripe on 
