66 
Psyche 
[June 
producing in that sex a generally grey appearance. Hind tibiae 
with five spines exclusive of apical ones. Opercula very short, 
crescentic, barely hiding the underlying cavities. Axillary mem- 
branes distinctly white. Aedeagus as in figure 8. 
Color jet-black, male immaculate save for opercula which 
are largely whitish, and the following testaceous markings, — 
an almost imperceptible edging to abdominal tergites except 
the basal two or three, a narrow edging above antennal scrobe, 
sides of face, posterior margins of abdominal sternites. Female 
with wing-veins paler, apex of vertex, sides of pygophor and most 
of venter pale testaceous; also testaceous are two marks on 
each side of disc of pronotum, its posterior margin very narrowly, 
most of cruciform elevation and a narrow posterior margin to 
mesonotum. A silvery median longitudinal line on abdomen 
formed by white pubescence. Fore femora olivaceous striped 
with black. 
Dimensions in mm. (first figure, male, second, female). — 
Length to tip of last tergite, 19.0; 20.1; length of head, 1.7; 
2.3; width between eyes, 2.5; 3.0; length of pronotum, 2.5; 
3.0; length of mesonotum, 3.9; 4.7; length of tegmen, 18.8; 
21.0; greatest width of tegmen, 7.0; 8.1; ratio of second an- 
tennal segment to third, in length, 1.6:1 (c? $); ratio of width 
between eyes to length of vertex, .70; .77. 
Holotype, male, Mt. Cleughearn, Hunter Mountains, South- 
land, New Zealand, 3,000 feet, 25th June, 1917, A. Philpott. 
(Myers collection). 
Allotype, female, same data as holotype. (Myers collection.) 
Paratopotypes, 2 males, 3,000 feet, 22nd January, 1914, A. 
Philpott. 
Paratypes, 2 males and 4 females Mt. Cook, 4500 feet, 
11th March, 1923, R. J. Tillyard. One male of these is only 
15 mm. long, but agrees in sedeagal structure and in other res- 
pects. The females are much blacker than the type and what 
pale markings they possess are not testaceous but drab. 
Females referred without certainty to this speces. — Two 
from Lake Wakatipu, 3,600 — 4,000 feet, February, 1911, G. V. 
Hudson; one from Ben Lomond, 20th December, 1913, A. Phil- 
