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deeply split, outer arm a slender chitinized rod, apex acute, margin smooth 
or nearly so, except at base where is borne a very powerful bifid spine, with 
a tiny double spinule in its axil ; inner arm of dististyle subequal in length, 
slender, pale, with sparse tiny setae. Aedeagus long, gently curved upward, 
with row of papillae along its face. Gonapophyses of either side bifid, tip 
of each arm densely tufted with golden spinous setae. 
Allotopotype, S. Ohakune, Wellington, altitude 2,060 ft.; 13th November, 
1921 (T. А. Harris) : 
Elephantomyia zealandica Edwards. 
1923. Marcus ir zealandica Edwards, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 54, 
288, pl. 28, fig. 35 (wing). 
Edwards's baie, a female, was from Lake Wakatipu, Otago, ED 
in 1906 by Hudson. The fly now known to be widely distributed in 
both Islands. 
Allotype.—d. Length, excluding rostrum, 5:5 mm.; wing, 6:5 mm.; : 
rostrum «CR about 4 mm. T 
Similar to female, differing only in sexual characters. Median praescutal 
stripe very distinet on anterior half of sclerite, becoming obliterated behind. 
Abdomen with subterminal dark-brown ring, үг тике A segments 7 a: ne 
E I PE TOME, 
о с. 
Allotype, d. Waipori, Otago, altitude 2,000 ft.; 5th December, 1921 
(W. G. Howes). | 
Tribe TiPULINI. 
Dolichopeza (Dolichopeza) atropos (Hudson). 
1895. Tipula atropos Hudson, Trans. N.Z. I. nst., vol. 27, p. 295. 3 
1900. куке e atropos Hutton, ibid., vol. 32, p. 24, pl. 3, fg. l1 
1923. Miao atropos Edwards, ibid., vol. 54, p. 331. 
Hudson’s unique type, a male, was taken at Terawhiti, near Wellington 
while hovering about a cave (a gold-mining shaft, accordin ng to Edwards). 
Hutton redescribed the unique type. mes ae rds had not seen a specimen. 
ype—9. Length, 15 mm. ; wing, 1 : 
Female agrees well with male, differing: ch chiefly . in sexual characters. 
Antennae nearly as long as thorax ; basal segment of “р nes en 
edl od 
paler stripe on either side of darker median line- ; short lateral | 
likewise paler se ground-colour. Ovipositor with short stout valves, 
tergal valves straig 
Allotype, 9, т АЕ Otago; 4th January, 1923 (C. C. Fenwick). 
... This is the largest of the four New Zealand a of the genus thus 
far described. The fulvous vertical tubercle was not mentioned in aiid 
