new or lUtle-hnown Tipulidse. 195 



Hab, New Zealand (Nortlj Island). 



Holotype^ J , Oliakuue, altitude 2060 feet, November 18, 



1921 {T. R.Harris). 

 Alloiopotype, $ . 



Paratopotypes, 30 (^ ? ; 1 additional ^ , November 20, 

 1921. 



" Hanging around a water fall/^ 



Dicranomyia heteracantha, sp. n. 



Male. — Length about 4*3 mm. ; wing 4'5 mm. 



Related to D. seducta^ Alexander, differing as follows : — 



Size smaller. Mesonotal praescutum brownish yellow, 

 with a broad, median, dark brown stripe, the lateral margins 

 of the sclerite being broadly pale (in seducta the disk is 

 largely covered by the three confluent stripes) ; scutal lobes 

 slightly darkened ; remainder of the mesonotum obscure 

 yellow. Pleura pale brownish yellow. Wings with the 

 stigma very pale brown, subcircular in outline. Venation 

 with Rs more arcuated ; cell 1^/ M2 broader. Male hypo- 

 pygium with the spines on the rostrum heteromorphous as 

 in seducta. The more distal spine arises from a very elongate 

 base, this base much longer than the rostrum beyond it and 

 nearly as long as the proximal spine itself; the distal spine 

 is about one-half longer than its base and very slender. 



Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 



Holotype, (^ , Ohakune, altitude 2060 feet, January 28, 



1922 (7'. R. Harris). 



MolopMlus howesi, sp. n. 



General coloration brown, the postnotum and pleura dark 

 brown; antennae moderately elongate; halteres yellow; wings 

 with a strong brown suffusion ; anal veins convergent ; male 

 hypopygium with the pleural appendages terminal in 

 position. 



Male. — Length about 3*8 mm. ; wing 4'4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae black, the 

 second segment light yellowish brown ; antennal flagellum, 

 if bent backward, extending about to the halteres, dark 

 brownish black. Head dark brown. 



Pronotum dark brownish black, Mesonotum uniformly 

 brown, the praescutum a little brighter than the scutal lobes, 

 the humeral region and lateral margins obscure yellow ; 

 scutellum and postnotum dark brown. Pleura dark brown. 

 Halteres yellow. Legs with the coxa3 and trochanters 



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