Epwanps.—Preliminary Revision of the Crane-flies of New Zealand. 307 
brown-tinged ; stigma elongate, fuscous, not sharply defined ; veins black, 
except R and Cu, which are brown. Cell M, absent. Ax with its tip some- 
what hooked, bordered with blackish for its whole length, especially 
towards leg ‘Length of body, 9mm.; wing, 10 x 3:3 mm. 
LAND ISLANDS (Krone). The specimen flew out from a sod of moss, 
the dm containing which was not opened by Krone for over four yea 
after the collection was made. one and Mik believe that the pupa or 
larva had lived in the moss for this period. 
Type in the Vienna Museum (presumably). 
Limnophila skusei Hutton. (Figs. 68-70, 150.) 
Limnophila skusei Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 34, p. 190, 1902. 
Limnophila орат Alexander, Insecutor I nscitiae, vol. 8, 
p. 121, 1 
The eret of this species are rather variable (see figs, 68-70), 
but form a ready means of identification, apart from the structural 
characters mentioned in the key. The male has not hitherto been de- 
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aedoeagus, with three sets of paired appendages. There is a pair of trans- 
verse, impressed, shining areas near base of second tergite, but the 
remaining tergites are devoid of such areas. The tibial spurs are about as 
long as diameter of vA of tibia. Venation ur short, vertical, only about 
bristles on frd д Мое of body, 3 11-13 mm., 2 16-18 mm. ; wing, 
12-16 mm. 
Nortu Istanp: Wellington district, in swampy places (©. V. Hudson 
No. 8); type female in Canterbury Museum, three males and three females 
in British Museum. Ѕоотн ISLAND : Mount Grey, Canterbury, November, 
1917, one male in Canterbury Museum; Tisbury, 7th November, 1915 
pe: Philpott), one female in Cawthron Tnstitaté рсе: Otago (Osten- 
) ander’s type female in Berlin-Dahlem Mus 
. Hudson informs me that the type of L. skusei seem his number 8, 
and is undoubtedly the same as other specimens sent to me under this 
number. The synonymy with L. novae-zelandiae is therefore certain. 
Limnophila delicatula Hutton. (Figs. 66, 151.) 
Limnophila delicatula Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 42, 1900. 
An extremely distinct species on account of the dan. wings, devoid 
of markings except for the pale-brownish stigma. Head dark grey; front 
narrow, not one-eighth as broad as head. Antennae alike in both sexes, 
a little longer than the small thorax; first scapal joint rather long, 
whitish-ochreous, second rounded, dark- P ашы flagellum dark brown, 
