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lighter; black mark on second abdominal segment smaller ; wings broader, 
pale markings more extensive; pre-arcular cells and cell M, almost all 
whitish ; pale portion of cell R, with only a faint Р онр tinge ; cell Ax 
rather more extensively dark at base. Peng of b Lo 12-13 mm. ; wing, 
d 19mm., $ 17 mm.; antennae, $ 33 mm., 9 2- 
М№овтн Istanp: Forest, Kaeo, North "nodis ; January, 1913 (G. V. 
Hudson, No. 294); type male and one female in British Museum. The 
female differs from male in having a smaller pale area in tip of cell M. 
—— decorata n. sp. (Fig. 108.) 
ing rostrum and antennae, rather light brown, dull. 
Frontal йек well developed, rather larger in male; front with long 
but not very dense pale hair. Front nearly half as broad as head, nasus 
bifurcate at tip. Antennae as long as head and thorax together in male, 
shorter than thorax in female ; thirteen-jointed. Basal joint much swollen 
in male. Flagellum evenly tapering in male; in female the first five 
flagellar joints thicker than others, almost cylindrical but slightly enlarged 
apically ; last two joints short, somewhat thicker than preceding four, 
so that to the naked eye antenna appears slightly clubbed. Thorax rather 
light greyish-brown, dull, with short and rather dense pale hair. Praescutum 
T. Та dull dark-brown stripes; scutum mostly dark brown. Pleura 
e than mesonotum, anteriorly with two chocolate-brown spots one 
shove the other, bordered with СТЕ brown. Abdomen ochreous-brown, 
cells, more жоу bun in costal cell; a (oem lunate white mark in 
apical half of basal cells, spreading over greater part of discal salt cell. 
К, mostly white ; basal half of cell R} yellow; R, a little longer than 
+з, Ё, about half as long, arising at an angle of 60° ; stem of cell M, 
about one-eighth as long as cell; Cu, fused with M, for a short distance ; 
cell Ax large, broadest near hae Legs rather dark brown, tips of joints 
darker. Last tarsal joint in male somewhat swollen, especially at base 
beneath. Empodia nearly as long as vui Length of body, 12 mm. 
wing, 19mm.; antennae, 5 4:5 mm., © 2:5 m 
Мовтн IstAND: Wainuiomata, Wellington, Christmas, 1906, and 15th 
ШЫ 1920 (@. V. Hudson, No. 210); type male, one other male, and 
one female in British Museum 
Close ‚ lunata Hutton, but differs in the markings of wings and 
abdomen, and in length of male antennae 
Macromastix huttoni n. sp. (Fig. 109.) 
Head dull dark ochreous, scarcely any darker in middle, with some 
ochreous-grey dusting round eyes. Front about one-quarter as broad as 
head, tubercle moderate. Rostrum slightly longer than head, rather darker 
than vertex ; nasus with long hairs at tip, which is not bifid. Palpi blackish. 
Antennae rather dark brown, alike in both sexes: ; Shorter than thorax. 
first scapal joint slender. First ae joint slightly shorter than second, 
third, or fourth; fifth and sixth shorter; last five thinner and indistinctly 
