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joints slender, nearly cylindrical, verticils a little longer than joints. Thorax 
rownish ; praescutum and scutum somewhat shining; postnotum and 
pleurae* heavily dusted with grey. Abdomen slender, with the usual 
impressed areas on tergites 2-7. Male hypopygium very small, con- 
structed as in figure; the aedoeagus peculiarly complicated. Legs uniformly 
brownish, very long and slender; tibial spurs shorter than diameter of 
tibia. Wings as in figure; Cu,, is either exactly at base of discal cell or 
a short distance before it. Sc, rather oblique, as long as Se, ; r rather 
oblique, as long as tip of R,. Rs not spurred. Squama without bristles. 
It is worth noting that in most specimens macrotrichia are present on 
Uja as well as on both veinlets which close the discal cell. Since one 
at least of these must be a true cross-vein, this species forms an exception 
to Tillyard's rule that macrotrichia are confined to the longitudinal veins. 
This is by no means the only such exception which has come under my 
notice. Length of body, 9-12 mm. ; wing, 9-12 mm 
ORTH IsLAND: Wellington district, in forest, March (6. V. Hudson, 
No. 160); two males and three females in British Museum. 
This species is probably referable to the subgenus Limnophilella Alex., 
but in the two described South American species r is much farther from 
the tip of R,. | 
Limnophila leucomelas n. sp. (Figs. 55, 152.) 
Head rather dark brownish-grey; front nearly a quarter as broad 
as head. Rostrum scarcely half as long as head, blackish. Palpi black. 
Antennae in female about as long as head and thorax together, in male 
nearly twice as long; scape brownish-ochreous, the first joint mode- 
without maerotrichia. Cu,, about middle of discal cell. Halteres rather 
short, dark brown. Length of body, 6-8 mm. ; win 
A third female from Karori, Wellington, November, 1912, amon ferns 
(G. V. Hudson, No. 2114), differs from these in havin a detis dd and 
rather broad dark M along Rs. The thoracie coloration is not at all 
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