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and the lateral praescutal stripes, though variable in intensity of coloration, 
are always darker than the middle stripes. The sexes are alike as regards 
antennae and wings. The flagellum is ten-jointed, the last five joints 
very short, rather indistinctly separated, and together not longer than the 
fourth and fifth joints together. 
Norta Istanp: Karori, December, abundant (6. V. Hudson, No. 127); 
one female in British Museum. Sourn Istanp: Otago (Osten-Sacken) : 
a number of specimens in Oxford Museum, collected by C. M. Wakefield, 
probably from Canterbury. 
Macromastix sinclairi n. sp. (Figs. 120, 179.) 
Head. greyish-ochreous, greyer round eyes, somewhat darker in middle. 
Front about one-quarter as broad as head, tubercle rather prominent, 
slightly bifid. Rostrum scarcely as long as head, brownish-ochreous ; nasus 
broad, blunt-ended. Antennae brownish-ochreous, somewhat darker apic- 
ally ; first scapal joint slender. Flagellum eleven-jointed ; first eight joints 
gradually diminishing in size, rather elongate oval, somewhat more convex 
beneath; last three joints rather more slender and each a little longer 
than the eighth. Thorax dull brownish-ochreous, with short, uniformly dis- 
tributed and rather dense pale pubescence. Praescutum with three darker- 
brown stripes, middle one broad and undivided. Abdomen dark-brownish, 
darker. Wings alike in both sexes, except that in the female cell Ax is 
hind tarsus, 5 23 mm., 9 13 mm. 
ORTH ISLAND: Auckland ? (Dr. A. Sinclair, 1845), one male and two 
females in Kirby's series of Tipula obscuripennis; Karori, Wellington, 
March-April (G. V. Hudson, No. 201), two males (including type) and two 
females in British Museum. 
Macromastix obscuripennis (Kirby). (Fig. 180.) 
Tipula obscuripennis Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 271, 1884. 
segments 5-6 rather conspicuously grey-dusted. H ium as figured, 
oe but distinct from that of M. Daten Lend h of body, 
3 1 n.; hind tarsus, 20 mm. 
Nort IstAND: Auckland? (Dr. A. Sinclair, 1845). Kirby's series 
consisted of two males and two females (he had overlooked the fact that 
he had both sexes before him); of these one male and two females are 
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