Kpwarps.—Preliminary Revision of the Crane-flies of New Zealand. 283 
The reduced venation renders the species an easily recognizable one 
so far as the New Zealand fauna is concerned, though it is certainly very 
closely related to D. luteonitens. The same reduction of the media occurs 
in a few Malayan and American species. 
Dicranomyia sulphuralis n. sp. (Fig. 132.) 
Body entirely pale ochreous, almost sulphur-yellow, only eyes and 
flagellum of antennae black, knob of halteres somewhat darkened. Hypo- 
pygium—fleshy claspers very large, quite three times as long as side-pieces. 
Horny upper claspers small, curved, not narrowed in middle. Rostrum 
short, its two spines short and placed so close together that in the dry 
specimen they appear as a single spine. Parameres rather broad, but 
somewhat pointed. Ninth tergite with very broad V-shaped emargination. 
Wings hyaline, veins all pale, stigma absent. Sc, twice as long as Rs, 
its tip slightly before base of Rs. Rs slightly shorter and more curved 
than basal section of R,,,. Discal cell about half as long again as 
broad. Length of body, about 4-5 mm. ; wing, 6 mm. 
NonTH Istanp: Te Wairoa, 16th November, 1919 (D. Miller); one male. 
Dicranomyia monilicornis Hutton. 
Dicranomyia monilicornis Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 34, 
1900 
** Yellowish-brown ; rostrum, сохае, and lower surface of body lighter ; 
antennae and palpi darker. Wings unspotted, slightly fuscous, the costa 
yellowish-brown ; veins fuscous. Rostrum about the length of head in 
female, shorter in male. Flagellum of antennae submoniliform in both 
sexes. Legs hairy. Auxiliary vein ends some distance inside origin of 
second longitudinal; posterior cross-vein in line with base of discal cell. 
Length, 5 6-7 mm., 2 6-7 mm.; wing, 5 8-9 mm., $ 9 mm."—(Hutton.) 
Зоотн Istanp: Christchurch (Hutton). 
Although the specimens in the Berlin-Dahlem Museum (see note under 
D. cubitalis) show that this was not the species for which Osten-Sacken 
had intended the name monilicornis, Hutton's name must be used for it. 
Dicranomyia gracilis n. sp. (Figs. 25, 133.) 
Limnobia gracilis Walker (nom. nud.), List Dipt. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 
, 1848. 
Head dark greyish-ochreous, with black hairs rather longer than usual. 
Front about one-fifth: as broad as head. Proboscis brownish, slightly 
shorter than head. Palpi and antennae dark brown. Flagellar joints 
globular, last four or five rather shortly oval; verticils a little longer than 
joints. Thorax moderately dark brown, scarcely shining, but without 
Praescutum with broad, slightly darker central stripe, 
confluent behind with pair of short lateral stripes. Abdomen uniformly rather 
dark brown. Hypopygium—ninth tergite narrow ; with very shallow rounded 
emargination ; side-pieces very long and narrow ; claspers modified from 
usual type, upper horny one reduced to small pale bristle, lower one more 
slender and hairy and less fleshy than usual, folded inwards, without spines, 
but with tuft of rather long hairs at tip. Ovipositor—anal valves slender, 
straight, slightly longer than last segment; genital valves rather short 
and stout, straight. Legs uniformly brown. Wings slightly and uniformly 
tinged with greyish-brown, stigma no darker, veins rather dark. Sc, about 
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