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hypopygium vary. The antennae are rather differently agit from 
those of the other s species of this group: the flagellum is distinctly ten- 
jointed, the joints all about equal in length, very Pda and slightly 
decreasing in thickness, the terminal joints not more hairy than the rest. 
The nasus varies in development. The female legs are shorter, but not 
any ul than those of the male. 
Norta -Istanp: Wellington district (б. V. Hudson, No. 165). The 
British Masts possesses three males and three females from Wainuiomata, 
3rd December, 1898, and 14th December, 1920; the Cambridge Museum 
has two males. 
Macromastix clara (Kirby). (Fig. 103.) 
Tipula clara Kirby, Trans. Ent. ip cv p. 271, 1884; Hutton, 
Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, 
A very well marked species, ia litis t once from all others 
by the uniformly ochreous thorax and the conspicuous brown tips of 
mately equal in length, the last three more slender than the rest and with 
longer hairs. The legs are long and slender. The sexes are very much 
alike; Kirby's type is a female, not a male. 
Мовтн Istanp: Wellington (G. V. үл No. 142н); one male a 
British Museum ; two males in Cambridge Museum. Auckland ? (Dr. A 
Sinclair), Kirby's type female. 
Macromastix orion (Hudson). 
Tipula orion Hudson, Trans. N.Z. Inst, vol. 27, p. 294, 1895; 
Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 29, 19 
A very distinct and easily recognized species, owing an the orange- 
yellow veins and membran e of wings; C, Se, R, and R, are black, as is 
continuation of costa all ие margin of wing. Hutton mentions dark 
thoracic stripes, but these are not present in the single example I have 
seen, though the mesonotum is somewhat darker than the uniformly orange 
pleurae. Abdomen mainly orange, with a rather narrow median black 
stripe of even width. Coxae orange ; front trochanters almost entirely 
orange-yellow, middle and hind pairs orange above, black below. 
Sourn Istanp: Mount Peel, Nelson, 4,000 ft. (G. V. Hudson). There 
is a male in British Museum, presented by Captain F. W. Hutton, and 
another in Cambridge Museum. 
Macromastix auroatra n. sp. 
. Head orange; very large velvet-black mark on vertex, extending 
forwards on to frontal tubercle, which is rather small and feebly bifid. 
undivided, v separa m lateral stripes; scutum with two large 
patches; a rather narrow stripe on pleurae, een a little below 
prothoracic stigma and continued across mesoster a pair of spots on 
apex of postnotum ; and a spot on lower ар edis of postnotum 
close to base of halteres. Abdomen deep orange, with a rather narrow black 
central stripe and less conspicuous lateral stripes. Hypopygium very ‘much 
the same as in M. duz. Legs slender, black, coxae, front trochanters, and 
is bases of front femora orange; femora slightly swollen apically. Wings 
