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NomrH Istanp: Wellington district (G. V. Hudson, No. 151); one 
female in British n from dense forest, Wainuiomata, 15th December, 
1920. Sours Ist : Otira, December, 1908 (G. V. Hudson) ; ; The Hump, 
24th December, “1915 (A. Philpott), one sia д Cawthron Institute 
collection. It is just possible that the two spec в are not conspecific. 
Further material of each sex from both localities "will decide the point. 
Macromastix cinerea n. sp. 
9. Head dark grey, with some pale hair; front about one-third as 
broad as head, without tubercle; rostrum scarcely as long as head, mode- 
rately hairy, with distinct nasus. First scapal joint long, rugose; second 
very small.  Flagellum eleven-jointed; first joint enlarged, especially 
on under-side; next five joints also slightly enlarged on under-side, 
gradually decreasing in size; last five joints somewhat more slender, 
last two indistinctly separated and slightly thicker diah seventh to ninth. 
Thorax ash-grey, praescutum with traces of four darker stripes, and with 
rather long and dense dark hair on interspaces. An ochreous patch on 
pleurae between wing-base and prothoracic stigma. Abdomen ash-grey 
above, buff-coloured below. Legs rather long and slender, blackish-brown, 
сохае and bases of femora lighter. Wings hyaline, stigma scarcely darker, 
veins dark brown. Rs very short, shorter than R,,, and hardly longer 
than R,; stem of cell M, about half as long as cell; cell Ax E. 
broad. Halteres brownish: Length of body, 11 mi. : : wing, 14-5 mm. 
.; hin us, m. 
отн ISLAND: Arthur's Pass, 3,000 ft., December, 1914 (G. V. Hudson, 
No. 322); type and one other female in British Museum. 
Macromastix vulpina (Hutton). (Fig. 116.) 
Megistocera vulpina Hutton, Cat. N.Z. Dipt., p. 16, 1881. 
Marcomastiz vulpina Osten- Sacken, Berl. ent. Z ete vol. 30, p. 185, 
1886; Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 30, 1900. 
An easily recognized species, on account of short, stout body, elongate 
male antennae, and practically unmar wings. The long, dense, pale 
hair of thorax shows the close А зетін to М. montana, but 
may be readily distinguished from this species by the four distinct 
praescutal stripes, the much paler abdomen, the relatively shorter legs 
(especially tarsi), and the rather conspicuous milky tinge to wings. As 
stated by Osten-Sacken, the female antennae ак thirteen-jointed, last 
five joints more slender and indistinctly separated. Stem of cell M, is 
Men one-half to two-thirds as long as cell. Length of body, 3 10 mm., 
mm.; wing, 14 mm. ; hind tibia, 8 mm. ; hind tarsus, ¢ 11-5 mm., 
9 n mm. 
Sours Istanp: Dunedin (Hutton); Lake Wakatipu (G. V. Hudson, 
No. 191); series in British and Cambridge Museums. Mount Grey, Can- 
terbury, January, 1918; one male in Canterbury Museum 
Macromastix montana Hutton. 
Macromastiz montana Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 31, 1900. 
ash-grey, densely covered with long pale hair. Rostrum as long 
as head, with short but distinct nasus. Frontal tubercle rather small. 
Antennae alike in both sexes. First scapal joint rather long, cylindrical, 
greyish, second small. Flagellum with nine joints, first four about equal 
