650 : e Transactions. 
Molophilus philpotti Alexander. ; : 
1922. Molophilus philpotti Alexander, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), 
vol. 9, 145-46. 
The types, females, were taken in the Province of Nelson by Philpott.  - 
The species occurs in both Islands. : E 
Allotype.—d. Length, about 3-7 mm. ; wing, 4-4 mm. 
Very similar to female, differing chiefly in sexual characters. Antennae 
short, flagellum dark brown. Abdomen more uniformly brownish-yellow 
` than in type. Male hypopygium (fig. 8) with apical spine of basistyle _ 
relatively short and only feebly chitinized, not blackened. Outer disti- 
style very much as in M. cruciferus, the stem stouter. Basal dististyle _ 
provided _ 
with sparse appressed denticles that pass into small setae basally. Aedeagus - 
long and slender, straight. E. 
Allotype, d, Mount Ruapehu, Wellington, altitude 3,700 ft.; 6th - 
January, 1922 (M. N. Watt). i 
Amphineurus (Nothormosia) horni Edwards. E 
1923. Amphineurus horni Edwards, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 54, p. 294 __ 
pl. 28, fig. 44 (wing). a 
Edwards’s type, a female, was from Wellington, collected by Hudson. d 
The fly is very common, occurring in both Islands (Wellington, Canter- _ 
bury, Otago). | a 
Allotype.—3. Length, about 2-8 mm. ; wing, 5 mm. 2 
Differs from female chiefly in sexual characters. Head dark grey. _ 
ar 
hreous. gs 
сохае and trochanters testaceous ; femora brown. Abdomen dark brown, 
al 
median line. 
-` . Allotype, d, Ohakune, Wellington, altitude 2,060 ft. ; 2rd Novembe 
1921 (T. R. Harris). | 
