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aline ; stigma and cells C and Se rather light brown. Cross-vein r 
present, rather short; Rs almost straight, less than twice as long as К, +, ; 
tip of Ax somewhat bent downwards. Halteres blackish, base of stem 
orange. Length of body, 10mm.; wing, 16mm.; hind leg, femur 9 mm., 
tibia 9 mm., tarsus 15 mm. 
Mount Arthur Tableland, were n January, 1891 (G. V. Hudson, 
No. 84B); type male in British Mus 
Macromastix brevitarsis n. sp. 
Head orange; a rather small and narrow black vertical spot, scarcely 
reaching the small and slightly bifid frontal tubercle. Rostrum scarcely 
as long as head, black above and at sides, orange beneath; nasus short 
but distinet. Antennae and palpi black, base of first scapal joint orange. 
Flagellum eleven-jointed, the last six joints all very slender; first four 
joints all of equal length, short, the first one or two swollen, shortly oval. 
Thorax orange with velvet-black markings: three praescutal stripes, the 
middle one very broad, slightly enlarged in middle, where it is almost or 
quite in contact with latéral d stripes; scutum with two rather broad stripes, 
constricted into two unequal parts; a well-defined stripe extending from 
front of middle praescutal stripe continuously to mesosternum, and sending 
a branch from prothoracic stigma almost to wing-base; postnotum with a 
double apical spot, the whole of lower lateral sclerite of postnotum black. 
Abdomen orange; a broad velvet-black median dorsal stripe, npe det 
in middle of second segment, and slightly enlarged on hind-margi 
tergite; narrower lateral black stripes, broadest near apex of ud seg- 
ment. Hypopygium hardly differing from that of та dux. Legs coloured 
as in M. auroatra, but very much shorter and stouter. Wings with slight 
veut tinge; veins dark brown; stigma and oie C and Se blackish- 
brown.  Venation as in M. auroatra. alteres black, base of stem orange. 
Length of body, 11 mm.; wing, 16 x 42mm. hind | leg—femur 7 mm., 
tibia 6:2 mm., tarsus 6:3 mm. 
Sourn Istanp: The Hump, Southland e Philpott) ; type male in 
British Museum, presented by Mr. G. V. Hudson. Two ad itional a 
from the same locality sent me through Dr. C. P. Alexander { 
these is somewhat larger than the ms and differs slightly in оа. 
М, arising exactly at base of discal cell. 
Macromastix dux (Kirby). 
Tipula dux Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 270, 1884. 
The following points are not mentioned in Kirby’s description: Nasus 
well developed. Frontal tubercle distinctly bifid. Rostrum a little shorter 
than head, its sides black, under-surface orange. A large blackish mark 
and thence at right angles wata rds to mesosternum, its edze eres 
ill-defined. Hypopygium—ninth tergite somewhat emarginate ; claspe 
rather short, a small hairy dorso-basal lobe, a shortly spiny ‘apical Ms 
a hairy ventral lobe, and a largely-bare dorsal portion, the inw ardly- 
directed tip of which is somewhat bifid and bears diis spines ; parameres 
short and rounded. Front coxae orange; middle and hind coxae orange 
and subcostal cells and stigma blackish- brown, m yellowish-brown as 
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