344 Transactions. 
and cell Ax is moderately broad. Length of body, 9mm.; wing, 16 mm. ; 
hind leg, 38 mm 
SovrH Istanp: Otira, November, 1918; type male (unique) in Canter- 
bury Museum 
have much pleasure in dedicating this species to Dr. C. P. Alexander, 
through inda kindness I received the Canterbury Museum collection for 
study. 
Macromastix fumibasis n. sp. (Fig. 112.) 
Head dark brown in middle, shading to ochreous-grey round the eyes. 
Front about one-third as broad as head, tubercle moderate. Rostrum 
about as long as head; nasus well developed, but broad and blunt. 
Antennae with the scape ochreous ; flagellum dark brown with ten distinct 
almost cylindrical joints, gradually decreasing in length and thickness, 
eleventh joint minute. Thorax with short but rather dense pale pubes- 
cence; mesonotum dull dark brown, the praescutum with four obscurely 
darker stripes; pleurae lighter. Abdomen rather dark brown, slightly 
shining and ochreous-tinged towards base; dull and somewhat greyish 
towards tip. Legs moderately slender, ochreous-brown, tips of femora and 
tibiae darker. Wings rownish over greater part o surface, much darker 
and a larger one at apex of cell R, extending into adjoining cells, except 
R+. К, oblique and nearly straight ; base of В, +, blackened and bent 
downwards ; ; cell M, ere three times as long as its stem. Lengt th of 
a 11-12 mm. ; wing, 1 7mm.; hind leg, 28 mm. 
UTH : Tisbury, 6th February, 1918, and 6th March, 1912 
(A. ра: ; type and another female in Cawthron гений collection. 
Macromastix fucata Hutton. 
Macromastix fucata Hutton, Trans. N. Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 31, 1900. 
The thoracic and abdominal markings are Seok especially the 
orange scutellum and base of pronotum, which contrast strongly with the 
rest of thorax; black markings of abdomen are not dusted over with grey, 
as ed are in M. montana and to a less extent in M. vulpina. In female 
Male differs from female as follows : ани with dark area at tip on 
upper surface. кшк all black, the last four flagellar joints slender. 
eee utum, and scutum almost 
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