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r long; verticils sparse and. moderately lon ан. very e 
2 narrow; tuberculate pits and pseudosutural | foveae both absent. 
Abdomen with transverse impressed areas distinct. Male h ypopygium 
large and complex; side-pieces produced into two or three finger-like lobes 
apically ; two pairs of hairy claspers; a separate more or less lyriform 
plate on ventral side, perhaps representing the true ninth sternite; ninth 
tergite with small median росна; : aedoeagus large and complicated, 
provided with two rounded lobes at tip of penis in addition to the two 
large parameres.  Tibial spurs Father long and stout.  Venation: Basal 
fusion of M and Cu long; arcular cross-vein absent or very faintly indi- 
cated. Se long; Sc; longer than vertical Sey. Tip of В, shorter then ғ 
b 
sufficient to warrant the establishment of a new genus for this species. 
According to Alexander (in litt.), “it is obviously closer to Epiphragma 
Epiphragma. The immature stages of both forms are wood-dwellers, a 
habitat that I have to believe as being very characteristic of generalized 
forms.” 
Apart from the genotype and the new species described below, I know 
of no others belonging to this genus. 
Rhamphophila obscuripennis (Hudson). (Figs. 51, 145, 146, 147.) 
Tipula obscuripennis Hudson, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 27, p. 294, 1895. 
Limnophila sinistra Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 40, 1900; 
Hudson, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 52, p. 33, 1 20. 
The wing-markings of this conspicuous fly will at once distinguish it 
trom all other New Zealand crane-flies, except R. lyrifera, described below 
the Australian Limnophila antiqua Skuse has similar wing-markings, bui 
is certainly not at all closely allied. In hypopygium, the upper apical 
lobe of side-piece is rather long and with a short stump dorsally some dis- 
tance before tip; the lower lobe is short; ventral plate broad at base, 
with nearly straight lateral horns scarcely as long as the basal portion, 
between the horns being a small median projection. Femora have a narrow 
and very oblique pre-apical dark rin 
NomrH Istanp: Auckland (W. Wesché) ; ; Wellington district (G. V. 
Hudson, No. 17); Te Wairoa (D. Miller); Papatotara, 26th February, 
1911 
ccording to Hudson, this species “is fairly common in most dense 
foresta throughout the country. The larva inhabits fallen tree-trunks in 
an advanced state of decay, forming burrows between the soft decayed | 
portion T ~ harder part of the wood.” 
Hudso: me obscuripennis is preoccupied in Limnophila, but (in 
my чор) bete valid when transferred to a new genus. I propose 
Zealand species. Among the eight males I examined there was no varia- 
tion in hypopygial structure. 
