10 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Hab. Auckland (Colonel Bolton) ; Ohristchurch (F. W. H.). 

 Eare. 



Genus Clitellaria, Meigen (1822). 



Antennae long, the first and second joints equal ; the 

 flagellum slightly obclavate, indistinctly 7-ringed, with a style 

 at the end. Eyes contiguous in the male. Scutellum with 

 two spines. Longitudinal veins of the wing strong up to the 

 margin. 



Clitellaria aberrans. 



Clitellaria aberrans, Schiner, Eeise der " Novara," Dipt., p. 55 

 (1868) ; Hutton, Cat. Dipt. N.Z., p. 39. 



Black with a white oblique band above the border of the 

 mouth. No style. Front tarsi yellow at the base, the last 

 pair yellow. Length, 5 mm. 



Hab. Auckland ("Novara" expedition). 



I do not know this species. 



Genus Cyclogaster, Macquart (1834). 



Flagellum of the antennae long, cylindrical. Scutellum 

 without spines. Abdomen suborbicular. Longitudinal veins 

 of the wing strong up to the margin. 



Cyclogaster peregrinus, sp. nov. 



Bluish-black, finely punctate over the whole upper sur- 

 face ; the thorax with short brown hairs. First and second 

 joints of the antennae and the palpi testaceous, or red. Legs 

 testaceous, the middle and hind femora brownish ; the proxi- 

 mal half of the fore tibiae black in front. Wings rather 

 smoky, dark at the tip ; the stigma fuscous. Halteres dark- 

 brown. Length, 5|- mm. ; wing, 5 mm. 



Hab. Whangarei (F. W. H.) ; Auckland (Captain Broun). 



The first joint of the antennae is short and cyathiform, 

 the second is oval and about twice the length of the first ; 

 the flagellum is very long and linear, indistinctly ringed, 

 without a style ; the third longitudinal vein is strongly arcu- 

 ated, the anterior branch leaving it a little outside the chief 

 cross-vein ; root of the fourth absent ; fifth longitudinal 

 strong ; the sixth weak ; seventh absent. Discal cell hexa- 

 gonal ; two intercalary veins, the second of which does not 

 reach the margin ; anterior and posterior basal cells not com- 

 pletely separated. Abdomen subcircular. 



Family TABANIDvE. 



" Three basal cells much prolonged ; third longitudinal 

 vein furcate ; two intercalary veins always present ; marginal 

 vein running round the whole border of the wing ; tegulae 

 rather large. Third joint of the antennae annulate, rarely 



