Epwarps.—Preliminary Revision of the Crane-flies of New Zealand. 313 
half as long as head. Palpi blackish. Antennae about as long as thorax ; 
scape and first flagellar joint ochreous, remainder dark brown; verticils a 
little longer than joints; joints almost cylindrical, very slightly enlarged 
at base. Thorax rather dark brown; scutellum and angles of pronotum 
whitish ; an ill-defined smoky area over prothoracie stigma; a distinct 
black girdle extending across the base of postnotum, and from thence to 
mesosternum. Praescutal stripes indistinct; the usual black hair present 
along interspaces. Tuberculate pits and pseudosutural foveae both absent. 
bdomen dark brown, paler beneath, without definite markings, impressed 
areas distinct. Legs moderately stout; coxae ochreous, front pair marked 
with dark brown in front; femora ochreous, each with two sharply 
marked black rings, the second well before tip; tibiae and tarsi dark 
brown. Tibial spurs as in L. chrysorrhoea. Wings with a slight brownish 
tinge, a dark-brown band across the cord, and numerous sharply marked 
roundish dark-brown spots, as in figure. Sc, not much longer than So,, 
which is nearly vertical; r faint, about as long as the nearly straight 
tip o ,; Rs spurred at base; Cu,, at middle of discal cell. 
Halteres brownish, middle of knob darker. Length of body, 11 mm. ; 
wing, 10 mm. 
Norta Istanp: Wainuiomata, in forest, 15th December, 1920 (G. V. 
Hudson, No. 275): type and one other female in British Museum. 
Limnophila cyatheti n. sp. (Figs. 60, 160, 161.) 
4. Head dark reddish-brown, with slight grey dusting. Front narrow, 
about one-seventh as broad as head, with a small bifid tubercle above 
antennae. Rostrum reddish-brown, with labella about as long as head. 
Palpi long, dark brown. Antennae more than half as long as body ; 
scape reddish-brown, rather stout ; flagellar joints cylindrical, with rather 
long and dense pubescence, the last few joints also with one or two long 
hairs; joints gradually decreasing in length ; first three or four entirely 
ochreous-brown, remainder darkened at base. Thorax rather dark reddish- 
brown; mesonotum slightly shining, praescutal stripes somewhat darker ; 
pleurae grey-dusted ; tuberculate pits and apparently also pseudosutural 
oveae absent. Abdomen reddish-brown, unmarked. Hypopygium—ninth 
Two distinct pairs of strong parameres , penis small. Legs moderately 
stout, brown, tibiae and tarsi rather darker; femora with dark-brown tips, 
and with indistinct dark ring some distance before tip, most obvious on 
hind pair. Tibial spurs rather stout, as long as diameter of tip of tibia. 
Wings tinged with pale ochreous, veins rather light brown ; brown markings 
as in figure. Sc, ending much beyond base of R,; Sc, almost vertical, 
about half as long as 8с, ; r oblique, longer than the short upturned tip 
of Ri; Bu spurred at base; cell M, longer than its stalk, Cu,, about 
middle of discal cell. Basal fusion of M and Cu long; no arcular cross- 
vein. No bristles on squama.  Halteres rather long, pale; knob elongate, 
darkened apically. Length of body, 19 тт. ; antennae, 13mm.; wing, 
9 
mm. 
Nortu Istanp: Wellington, forest gullies, four, 1915 (G. V. Hudson, 
No. 202); type male in British Museum; a second male in Cambridge 
