282 Transactions. 
Nort Isuanp: Wellington (Hudson). Mr. Hudson writes that the speci- 
men of D. nigrescens in his collection is slightly larger and more slender 
than D. brookesi, femora are without the pale ring, and stigma not so dark. 
Dicranomyia kronei Mik. 
Dicranomyia kronei Mik., Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, vol. 31, p. 199, 1881. 
5. Almost uniformly blackish - brown. Flagellar joints globular. 
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нта short and blunt, without spines ; horny clasper long, slightly curved 
and evenly tapering. Wings brownish, without markings, stigma faint. 
Se, about twice as long as 8е,, ending a little beyond the base of Rs. 
Rs quite two-thirds as long as Ro+3. Discal cell about half as long 
: m.; wing, 8 mm. 
UCKLAND ISLANDS (Krone). The above characters are drawn from 
than joints. Thorax considerably shining, rather light ochreous, slightly 
darker in middle of mesonotum, middle of pronotum brownish. Abdomen 
light brown, hypopygium lighter, in structure much resembling that of 
mm.; wing, 6mm. 
Norta Istanp: Mount Albert, 11th December, 1916 (A. E. Brookes), 
one male (type) in British Museum ; also a second damaged specimen from 
the same place, 20th November, 1915. 
; is seems to be near Hutton’s D. monilicornis, but is smaller, and, the 
localities being widely separated, the two are not very likely to be the same. 
of antennae missing oth specimens.) Front about ne-quarter as 
wide as head. Pro er than head. Thorax scarcely shini 
mesonotum a little darker than pleurae. Hypopy with large fleshy 
ORTH ISLAND : Titirangi, 30th December, 1915 (A. E. Brookes); one 
male in British Museum. Walker’s type male, also in British Museum, 
is m i recognizable condition, but there is no record of where it was 
