310. Transactions. 
This insect is dedicated to my friend Dr. C. Chilton, Professor of 
Biology, Canterbury College, Christchurch, through whose kindness I was 
enabled to visit the Cass Biological Station, near which this insect was 
first discovered. 
Pycnocentrodes pulchella n. sp. (Plate 19, fig. 15; text-fig. 24.) 
d. Total length, 3-5-4 mm. ; forewing, 6-7 mm.; expanse, 13-15 mm. 
Easily recognized by its dark-fuscous wings (almost black in life), 
forewing having a patch of bright golden hairs at base and another 
extending outwards so as to fill wedge-shaped area between Cu,, Cu, 
and 1A. The antennae have the large basal segment fuscous, the rest 
n" pale brown annulated with darker brown. The epicranium carries 
umber of long golden hairs. Thorax and abdomen black; append- 
pos brownish, shaped as in text-fig. 24. 
TEXT-FIG. 24. —Pycnocentrodes pulchella n 
s. Appendages (X 55 
a, lateral view; b, dorsal view. Compare uk: fig. үл (10 рег cent. 
OH preparation.) 
ypes.—Holotype and three paratype males, Lumsden, Southland, 
{13th December, 1919, R. J. T): all гә Cawthron Institute collection. 
The insect was discovered sitting on the rushes and reeds fringing à tiny 
streamlet near the railway-station; no females were seen. . W.G. 
Howes, of Dunedin, was present with me when they were taken. No 
other locality is yet known for this very beautiful little caddis-fly. 
‘Pycnocentrodes olingoides n. sp. (Plate 19, fig. 16; text-fig. 25 а.) 
= Total length, 5mm.; forewing, 10 mm. ; expanse, 21:5 шп. . 
{ , lhoraz, and abdomen brown; the epicranium with rich vum 
pides ine costa to apex fulvo mage 
posterior border pale-greyish. - Anal appendages of the one iss as in 
text-fig. 25 a, pre-anals rather broadly foliate, with narrow bases ; peni 
deeply bifid, and carrying a long projecting bristle uns twice as long 
