648 Transactions. n 
diffusely obscure yellow; sternites similar, but dark areas more confined 
to sides of sclerites. Male hypopygium (fig. 4) w ith ninth tergite feebly 
emarginate caudally, median area without setae.  Basistyles about as long ^. 
as ventral dististyle, mesal face produced caudad into cylindrical lobe that — : 
narrows gradually to apex, which is slender and attenuated. Ventral 
dististyle moderately fleshy, rostrum bearing two chitinized projections, 
apical one more spine-like but bearing two tiny setae, the other projection 
nd mo expanded at apex; what may represent dorsal dististyle 
Al oty 
1922 (J. =" Tapley). 
Tribe ERIOPTERINI. 
Molophilus multicinctus Edwards. : 
1923. gcn multicinctus Edwards, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 54, 3 
р. 
Edwards's types, ud without exact data, collected by Wakefield in — 
1880. The fly is one of the commonest a nd most widely distributed po А 
of the genus in - — having been taken in Wellington, W We 
with shorter flagellar verticils. Mesonotum dark brown, sides of ний. i 
pale yellow. Femoral annuli yellowish-white, other rings pure-white ; | 
basitarsal ring occupying little more than half length of segment. А 
Ovipositor with tergal valves elongate, acicular, rather strongly upeurved, _ 
tips acute; sternal valves straig 4 
Allotype, 9, Coal Creek Track, Greymouth, Westland; 13th February, 3 
1923 (T. R. Harris). E 
Molophilus cruciferus Alexander. 
1922. Molophilus a Alexander, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), 
vol. 9, p. 147 
e type, a female, aia by Miller in Thermal Springs region, 
Auckland. The fly is now known to occur in parts of A Auckland “and 
Wellington. This speci es, as well as the three following, belong to à la 
and difficult aggregation of New Zealand crane-flies that I have called t 
plagiatus group. The members are separated chiefly upon combinatio: 
of size and coloration, venation, and the details of structure of the 
hypopygium, especially the shape of the basal dististyle, although the 
deike: apical spine of the basistyle, and the aedeagus furnish addi 
ir? ре. —$. Length, about 3-6 mm. ; — 4mm 
n the unique p 
Moral black longitudinal stripe, ventral pleurites and mesoster 
piene silvery pruinose. Male hypopygium (fig. 5) as in plagiatus 8 
l beak of basistyle a moderately elongate chininized spine. 
