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33. A им spot on each side of stigma in male wing; female 
wings zeylandiae Alex. 
Clear и оп чигир side of stigma scarcely perceptible ; : female 
wings n 
34. Cell Ax very п narrow ; middle praescutal stripe paler than the Жары Alex. 
ral o 
Cell Ax bro vo praescutal stripes all of the same colour . x 
35. Middle praescutal stripe undivided АС .. sinclairi n. 
Middle praescutal stripe divided by a pale line... 2x рена: ‘Kirby. 
Division І. 
Rs quite half as long again as R,+,. Male antennae never elongate. 
Macromastix nebulosa (Hudson). 
Tipula nebulosa Hudson, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 56, p. 276, 1920. 
* d. Expanse of wings 2in. Length of body ё іп. General colour dull 
brown; there are two broad and two narrow longitudinal darker-brown 
bands on the praescutum; the prominent portions of the scutum and 
pered are also dark brown. The base of the abdomen is m E pect 
brown, the remainder suffused with blackish-brown. Legs dark brown, 
darker towards the extremities. The wings are of full average width, grey, 
with numerous cloudy whitish blotches and spots, forming very irregular broken 
transverse bands; the first band is situated just beyond the basal cross- 
vein ; the second, "which is much the widest, beyond the middle of the wing 
immediately before the submarginal cells; the third band, which is very 
irregular and composed of numerous rather smal spots, is situated on the 
The whole insect is covered with ver; The female is 
own, but, being a winter species, may possibly be semi-apterous."— 
(Hudson 
Мовтн IstAND: Open hills south of Wellington, 18th August, 1914 
(GEF. 
Hudson). 
I am indebted to Mr. G. V. Hudson for the loan of the type of this 
interesting species. I find it to be closely allied to M. maori Alex., having 
the same peculiar grey and cream-coloure wings, with the same short 
stump on the middle of vein M, and a very similar structure of the 
ypo It differs conspicuously from M. maori in the wing-markings, 
which are as described by Hudson, and are not at all ocelliform as they 
are in M. maori. The markings are not quite symmetrical on the two 
wings: the large pale blotch beyond the middle of cell M extends across 
the anal cells on the right wing but ous on the left. Alexander did not 
describe the antennal flagellum of M. in M. nebulosa it is short, 
distinctly ten-jointed, the joints каз анчы ge slightly diminisbing in 
length towards the tip. 
Macromastix tenera (Hutton). 
Tipula tenera Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 29, 1900. 
A remarkably distinct species, the dorsal and lateral stripes being pale, 
with black stripes between them, which is a reversal of the usual type of 
coloration of the abdomen. Colour of mesonotum very variable. One 
male in Н before me has broad deep-black praescutal stripes, as 
described by Hutton; a second has the stripes dark brown, in the others 
they are light brown, while in the females they are hardly perceptible. 
The ochreous colour of pleurae is not affected, nor does the structure of 
