. 
652 Transactions. 
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Allotype—g. Length, about 4-5 mm. ; wing, 5:5 р | 
Mos P diss with female. rea seii мст Scutellum | 
bright yellow ; postnotum darkened on posterior half. Pleural stripe.narrow | 
but conspicuous, extending from cervical dames to postnotum. Abdominal ` 
tes an урору ^ = 
hypopygium (fig. 10) with basistyles relatively small, apex of each pro- — 
duced caudad in blunt, setiferous lobe. Dististyles two—one a blunt, fleshy, | 
setiferous lobe that terminates in a powerful fasciculate seta, the other  - 
more chitinized, with a short acute black spine near mid-length, this spine 
shorter than the apex of style beyond it. Gonapophyses 3 slightly asym- 
metrical, long and slender. Dististyles of one side en, and it cannot 
s stated whether or not the hypopygium is унае as in the related 
- (L.) longispina Alexander t 
Allotype, 3, "Thusiaruni, Auckland; 24th December, 1922 (T. А. 
Harris). i 
Astelobia rufa (Hudson). 
1895. Tipula rufa Hudson, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 27, p. 294. 
1900. ye gees ae Hutton, ibid., vol. 32, р. 39-40, pl. 4, 
fig. 13 (wing). 
1920. ey dee Hutton: Hudson, ibid., vol. 52, рр. 32-33, 
l. (col.) 1, 7-9 (larva, pupa, adu lt t). 
1923. Gnophomyia (d tii) rds Edwards, ibid., vol. 54, p. 298, . 
48 (wi 3 
Hudson's types, males, were nte n dry forest near Wellington. E 
Although Edwards discussed the female sex, xs did not designate a specimen 
as allotype. з 
Allotype.— 9. Length, 28 mm. ; wing, 19-3 mm. 3 
Characters as in male, differing onl in sexual characters. Terga 
valves of VM cien long and slender, acutely pointed, strongly upcurv 
beyond mid-len. 
Allotype, 9, Red s Bush, Wellington; 15th November, 1908 (9. V. 
Hudson). 
Desc 
3 
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ribed from a pos specimen in my collection, received through E 
the kindness of Mr. Hudson 3 
Dy oe neozelandica (Edwards). 
1923. ma н (Aphrophila) neozelandica Edwards, Trans. N.Z. 
Inst., vol. 54, p. 298, pl. 28, fig. 47 (wing). 
Edwards's type is a female, taken at Otira Gorge by Hudson. The 
species is widely distributed in both rtm being known from Wellington, | 
Nelson, Westland, ратат, and о. d 
Allotype. —¢. ors ag 6-5 mm. ; wing, 11 
