98 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



yellow ; remainder of the legs dark brownish black, the 

 femoral bases very narrowly pale. Wings faintly tinged 

 with brown; stigma oval," pale brown; veins dark brown. 

 Venation : Sc long, Sci ending beyond mid-length of Rs, 

 Sc2 from once to twice its length from the tip ; inner ends 

 of cells i?3 and 1^^ M^ arcuated, especially the former ; basal 

 deflection of Cu^ at or beyond the fork of J/. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown ; basal sternites obscure 

 yellow, the terminal sternites passing into dark brown. 

 Male hypopygium with the spines of the rostrum of two 

 sizes and shapes, the elongate one arising from a small 

 papilloid base. Ovipositor with slender valves. 



Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 



Holotype, c^, Ohakune, altitude 2060 feet, December 25, 

 1921 {T. R. Harris). 



Allotopotype^ $ . 



Paratopotype, ^ ; paratype, <^, Taumarunui, December 12, 

 ]921 (r. i?. Harris). 



Rhamphidia harrisi, sp. n. 



General coloration shiny black; pleura silvery grey; 

 wings subh) aline with a broad seam along the cord and the 

 apex brown. 



Female. — Length, excluding rostrum, 8 mm. ; wing 

 7*8 mm. ; rostrum alone, about 9 mm. 



Rostrum black, pale beneath; palpi dark brown. Antennse 

 black, the incisure between the scape and ilagellum obscure 

 yellow. Head black, sparsely silvery pruinose. 



Pronotum with a pubescent pruinosity. Mesonotal prse- 

 scutiim and the scutal lobes shiny bLck ; median area of 

 scutum and the scutellum pollinose ; postnotum dark, the 

 basal half pruinose. Pleura shiny black with a conspicuous, 

 silvery-grey, pubescent pruinosity, the sternum glabrons. 

 Halteres yellow, the knobs darker. Legs with the fore coxae 

 black, grey pruinose; other coxse obscure yellow; trochanters 

 obscure yellow ; femora testaceous yellow, the tips broadly 

 dark brown; remainder of the legs black. Wings sub- 

 hyaline ; a faint brown cloud at arculus ; a broad seam along 

 the cord from the stigma, completely traversing the wing; 

 wing-tip broadly infuscated, the area basad of it completely 

 encircled by brown ; veins black. Venation : cell R^ about 

 one-half wider at the wing-margin than cell 7?3 ; cell 1st M2 

 gently narrowed distally ; m about one-third the outer 



