ALEXANDER.— Studies on the Crane-flies of New Zealand.’ 641 
Studies on the Crane-flies of New Zealand: Part 1—Order Diptera, 
Superfamily Tipuloidea. 
By Caries P. ALEXANDER, Department of Entomology, Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 
Communicated by J. W. Campbell. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 5th December, 1923; received by 
Editor, 15th December, 1923 ; issued separately, 28th August, 1924.] 
INTRODUCTION. 
THE crane-flies, or Tipuloidean flies, are well known to all entomological 
students and collectors in New Zealand, passing often under the vernacular 
ss ies " or “ daddy-long-legs." The designation of the southern 
these insects would seem to be te-tatau-o-te-whare-o- Maui, 
received its greatest impetus upon the publication in the last volume of 
these Transactions of Edwards's revision of the species, in which all of the 
species and data available at the time of writing the paper (1921) are most 
capably presented. 
The great increase in our knowledge of these flies during the past few 
CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CRANE-FLY 
UNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Never has the knowledge of the crane-fly fauna of a country been developed 
more rapidly and efficiently than has that of New Zealand during the past 
half-dozen years. This is due largely to disinterested collecting of virtually 
all of the entomological students of the country. At the end of 1918 the 
entire known Tipuloidean fauna of New Zealand consisted of but fifty-seven 
species ; the total number now known to the writer is more than 350, and 
additions are constantly being made. 
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