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form, as shown in text-fig. 14; the process of tenth tergite and pre-anal 
appendages long and slender, penis shorter, with bifid apex, gonapophysis 
short. 
9. Very similar to male, but differing from it in the slightly darker, : 
more fuscous forewings, and in having the abdomen produced into a : 
semitransparent brownish ovipositor, 1:5 mm. long, carrying a number ; 
of stiff bristles directed both forward and backwards; gonapophyses ear- | 
like, minute, 0-07 mm. long. ; : З E 
Types. — Holotype male, Ben Lomond, Queenstown, 4,000 ft. (15th a 
December, 1919, R. J. T.), also several paratype males taken at the same — : 
time; allotype female, Gouland Downs, 2,000 ft., Nelson Province (7th E 
February, 1922, R. J. T.): all in Cawthron Institute collection. 
Habitat.—Swampy areas in subalpine localities, South Island. | 
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Tiphobiosis fulva n. sp. (Text-fig. 13 5.) 
9. Forewing, 8mm.; expanse, 17 mm. 
This species differs from the previous one in its much greater size, and — 2 
also in having head clothed with rich brown hairs, forewings a deep . с 
fulvous, with few upstanding hairs of a dark colour, and venation very —— 
: 
distinct by the much greater length of apical forks, and the non-alignment FE 
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A NE 
of 'Cross-veins, as shown in text-fig. 135; also shape of apical portion of а 
ore is different, both margins being convex as they approach apex, E 
whereas in T. montana n. sp. they are both straight. The unique type 1$ * 
Family HYDROPTILIDAE. 
Genus ZELANDOPTILA n.g. (Text-fig. 15.) 
: Wings long and narrow, with long fringes, fringe of hindwing basally : 
somewhat longer than width of wing itself. Se short in forewing, long — 
and close to costa in hindwing. R, thickened in both wings, but term "= 
= 5; no closed cells in either wing, and no cross-veins except à faint 
in dues of one below stigma in forewing and one between Cu, and 1A 
in hindwing. Anal area very narrow, much reduced in hindwing, where 
the view now generally held that th ili 
e Hydroptilidae as a whole are ® 
reduced offshoot of the more primitive ттт 
