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ped related to any of the species of Rhypholophus and Ormosia found 
Europe, and this fact will further justify their treatment as a single 
pies Whether this group is given generic or only subgeneric rank is 
immaterial; for convenience I prefer the former plan, particularly as I 
have regarded the two European groups as distinct genera. I know of no 
other representatives of this genus outside Australia and New Zealand. 
No members of the group of genera (Amphineurus, Rhypholophus, vs 
Ormosia) have been described from the Neotropical region. In all thre 
genera (or subgenera, if the term be preferred) the male hypopygium н 
undergone permanent torsion, so that the ninth tergite lies on the ventral 
side. e occurs in Molophilus, and may indicate a closer relation- 
ship between these genera than any of them have to Erioptera, where the 
torsion does not occur. 
Owing to the inclusion of these additional species, Skuse’s definition = 
Amphineurus will require remodelling as follows: Discal cell present o 
absent ; cell M, either nil on M (as in the yb onm species) or ані, 
owing to the long fusion of M, with Cu,; M, ne r arising from M,, as 
in nearly all the species of Rhypholophus and Ormosia a fo und in the Northern 
Hemisphere. Ax long and sinuous (as in Rhypholophus). Side-pieces of 
58. 
male hypopygium with a long, finger-like terminal proc 
The New Zealand ijo may be distinguished as follows :— 
l. Discal cell present ; abdomen and wings densely 9. .. qerdecorus n. sp. 
Discal cell сеи ететт v moderately ha ey 2s 2 
2. . 23 3 
Cell Ms stalked ; Ks - e 4 
3. Femora black with two narrow yellow rings .. a .. bicinctus n. в 
Femora with black, white, and brown rings .. Y .. hudsoni n. sp. 
4, Dull, dark species without ornamentation aig .. horni n. sp. 
‘Light species, or else with distinct ornamentation Ls 
5. all ochreous . ia ss -. dnsulsus (Hutton). 
Femora with two yellow rings m Y v .. fatuus (Hutton). 
Of these species, A. horni shows an approach to Erioptera, and A. per- 
decorus to Molophilus ; the other four are much more closely a 
Amphineurus perdecorus n. sp. (Figs. 41, 42, 135.) 
Head black, with long whitish scaly pubescence. Antennae about as 
long as head and thorax together, brown ; the flagellar аа pes darker 
middle, all about equal in length, elliptical, with rather short 
pubescence and one or two long hairs on dorsal surface of each ionis 
Thoraa with black integument, clothed in A anes with long narrow creamy- 
white scales forming a rather indefinite pattern; just anterior to the 
mesonotal suture are two roundish tufts of dark-brown scales. Pubescence 
of pleurae of same colour but rather more hair-like. Abdomen densely 
covered with scales, pale-brownish at sides, dark in a median dorsal line ; 
about half of the light scales are of peculiar form, like minute bladders, 
the осо аз well as all the dark ones, very long and hair-like. 
H ium—tips of side-piec eces drawn out into ses very hairy pro- 
densely covered with long hair-like scales, mostly black, but the femora 
are paler on basal third and have narrow yellowish ring beyond middle ; 
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