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NomrH IstAND: Karori, Wellington, in forest (G. V. Hudson); type 
male, 27th February, 1921 (No. 281), and one female, October, 1911 
(No. 125K), in British Museum. This is evidently nearly allied to L. argus, 
but is perfectly distinct. 
Limnophila argus Hutton. (Fig. 65.) 
Limnophila argus Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 41, 1900. 
Distinguished at once by the very conspicuous ocellate wing-markings, 
the two most conspicuous eye-spots being before middle and at tip of Ax. 
Se, is very oblique, and about twice as long as Sc, ; 7 about as long as 
tip of R,; Cu,, at middle of the discal cell; squama with two bristles, 
hypopygium has almost precisely the same structure as in the following 
1 one male in. Canterbury Museum; Tisbury, 15th October, 1916 
(A. Philpott), one female in Cawthron Institute collection. 
Limnophila lambi n. sp. (Figs. 64, 157.) 
Differs from L. argus as follows: Postonotum almost uniformly brown. 
slightly shining. Discal cell much shorter, Cu,, quite close to its tip, 
None of the eye-spots on the wings with definite dark centres, and no 
spicuous. ; : 
As in L. argus, empodia absent, and male hypopygium shows the 
following characters: Ninth tergite slightly emarginate, with a pair of 
membranous, fleshy appendages, laterally placed. Outer claspers slightly 
pe ith a long, slender, bare, cylindric 
(G udson, No. 125); type male in British Museum. is possibly 
only a variety of L. argus, but seems so distinct that I describe it pro- 
ionally as a separate species. The t was presented to the British 
i . ype 
Мад by my friends Dr. Н. Scott and Mr. C. G. Lamb, and is one of a 
number of specimens sent for determination by Mr. G. V. Hudson to the 
latter in 1911. : 
Limnophila chrysorrhoea n. sp. (Figs. 58, 158.) 
Head dark greenish-grey, blackish on eye-margins in front. Front 
about one-fifth as broad as head, slightly swollen immediately above base 
of antennae. Rostrum and palpi blackish, the former a little shorter than 
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