On new or little-known Tipulielae. 97 



655. Aroa tomisa. 



Aroa tomisa, Druce, Ann. k Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xvii. p. 353 (1896). 

 Type, S , Dar-es-Salaam, in Coll. Joicey, 



656. Aroa siilphurea. 



Aroasulphurea, Flotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xli. p. 84 (1880) ; Mosch. Abhandl. 

 Senck. Ges. xv. p. 75, tig. 10 (1887) ; Kirby, I. c. p. 463. 



W. Africa. 



657. Aroa (?)xanthospiia. 



Aroa xanthospila, Plotz, I. c. 

 Aroa (?) xanthosjnla, Kirby, I. c. 



W. Africa. 



[To be continued.] 



VII. — New or little-known Tipulidse (Diptera). — XIII. Aus-- 

 tralasian Species. ]^y Charles P. Alexander, Ph.D., 

 F.E.S., Amherst, Massachusetts^ U.S.A. 



The new species described in this paper are all from New 

 Zealand and were collected by Messrs. Curtis, Fenwick, 

 Harris, and Howes, to whom the writei*'s sincere thanks are 

 due for the privilege of retaining the types. 



Dicranomyia seducta^ sp. n. 



Head grey ; disk of mesonotal pryescutum and the scutal 

 lobes brownish black ; wings with a iaint brownish tinge ; 

 stigma oval, pale brown; vein Sc long ; spines on rostrum 

 of male hypopygium heteromorphous. 



Male. — Length 5 mm. ; wing 5*7 mm. 



Female. — Length 6*5 mm. ; wing 6*5 mm. 



Rostrum reddish brown, nearly as long as the head ; 

 palpi dark brown. Antennae brownish black. Head grey. 



Pronotum dark brown. Mesonotal praescutum obscure 

 brownish yellow^ with three confluent, subshiny, brownish- 

 black stripes ; scutal lobes brownish black ; remainder of 

 the mesonotum brown. Pleura pale brownish testaceous. 

 Halteres dark brown, the basal half of the stem yellow. 

 Legs with the coxse concolorous with the pleura ; trochanters 



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