Epwarps.— Preliminary Revision of the Crane-flies of New Zealand. 981 
flagellar joints rounded, the last: six or seven shortly oval; verticils slightly 
longer than joints. Thorax brown, heavily dusted wit pale grey ; 
praescutum with three stripes of brown ground-colour. A ark 
brown, last segment and ovipositor reddish. Anal valves of ovipositor 
slender, curved, slightly shorter than last segment; genital valves some- 
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wing and veins Se and R white, the rest dark ; Cu slightly clouded ; stigma 
dark brown, small, roundish, bisected by the cross-vein. Sc, en ing 
slightly beyond the base of Rs, scarcely twice as long as Sc,, which is 
oblique. Rs gently curved, about twice as long as basal section of R,,, 
and nearly two-thirds as long as R,4,. A distinct fold sens the r-m 
cross-vein. Discal cell fully twice a long as broad, open to I, on 
one wing. Halteres light ochreous. Length of body, 5 mm. iE 6 mn 
Known only from Walker's female, now rm he type ы the spices 
which is stil in good condition in British Mus The species is so 
distinct that it seems worth describing, even though the locality of the 
type is unknown | 
Dicranomyia brookesi n. sp. 
Head blackish ; front slightly grey-dusted, rather narrow, apparently 
less than one-sixth as broad as head. Pro du^ dark brown, about half 
as long as head. alpi and antennae black; flagellar joints all oval, last 
six rather elongate, verticils slightly longer than joints. Thorax shining 
dark brown; an ochreous band on each side of mesonotum. Abdomen 
uniformly dark brown above, including hypopygium ; venter pale ochreous. 
Hypopygium—ninth tergite with two rounde Fleshy claspers 
extremely large, fully three times as long as side-pieces ; rostrum with two 
short spines, well separated, the outer (or more apical) one slightly shorter 
and distinctly stouter than the inner (or more basal) Horny claspers 
rather strongly tinged with brown; veins dark 
rather dark brown; a scarcely perceptible dark seam over cross-veins. 
Se, ending opposite or slightly beyond base of Rs, a little more than half 
as long as Rs. (Sc, absent in one specimen.) Rs about half as long as 
2:3. Discal cell about half as long ^C as = oy ote ene: 
base of stem ochreous. Length of body, 5-6 mm. ; 
[n SLAND: Hunua Ranges, Ist Sanay, 1916 (4. E Dia 
four males (ine pU. type) in British Museum; Karori, Wellington, 
14th April, 1913 (G. V дыга, No. 2968), one female іп British Museum. 
Dicranomyia nigrescens Hutton. 
Dicranomyia nigrescens Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 34, 
1900. 
* Dark fuscous, almost black, ovipositor reddish. Wings unspotted, 
dark fuscous. Rostrum about as long as head in female. Joints of 
flagellum of antennae oval. Auxiliary vein ending slightly beyond origin 
of icd longitudinal. Posterior eross-vein in a line with base of discal 
cell. Length, © 8mm.; wing, 211mm. Male unknown."— (Hutton.) 
