Hutton. — On the Diptera brachycera of New Zealand. 35 



near the tip ; the fourth nearly parallel to the third for three- 

 quarters of its length, then bent slightly forwards towards the 

 third, and backwards again near the tip, without any abrupt 

 bends. Length, $ 7 mm., ? 8 mm. ; wing, $ and ? 6 mm. 

 Hab. Christchurch (F. W. H.). 



Series CYCLORRHAPHA ASCH1ZA. 

 Family PHORIDiE. 



" Antennse apparently single- jointed, with a long bristle. 

 Wings with several stout veins running into the costa, and 

 three or four weak ones, which run across the surface of the 

 win^s, and are not completely connected with the hindmost of 

 the stout veins, from which they appear to issue. Femora 

 flattened" (Loew). 



Genus Phoea, Latreille (1796). 



Small. Arista long and bare. Thorax short-elliptical. 

 Wings rather longer than the body ; costa ending before or a 

 little beyond half the length of the wing; generally ciliated. 

 Abdomen generally nairow and longer than the thorax. Legs 

 rather long, with a few bristles. 



Phora omnivora. 



Phora omnivora, Hudson, Man. N.Z. Eut., p. 62, pi. vii., 

 figs. 15, 15a (1892). The neuration of the wing is in- 

 correct. 



Black, the legs and palpi pale-brown, the latter with black 

 hairs. Halteres yellowish. Costal vein with a double row of 

 bristles extending to nearly the middle of the wing. Also 

 some bristles at the anal angle of the wing. Auxiliary vein 

 distinct, ending in the first longitudinal, which is two-thirds 

 the length of the third longitudinal. Second longitudinal 

 emerging from the third near its tip. A spurious veinlet (or 

 fold of the membrane) extends from the tip of the third longi- 

 tudinal to six-sevenths of the length of the wing. The fourth 

 longitudinal is slightly curved backwards, reaching the margin 

 above the tip of the wing. The fifth, sixth, and seventh are 

 slightly undulated, the fifth reaching the margin below the 

 tip and almost exactly under the end of the fourth longi- 

 tudinal ; the seventh ends opposite the end of the third. 

 Middle and hind tibias spurred. Length, 2 mm. 



Hab. Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin (F. W. H.). 

 This species is very like P. rufipes, Fabricius, but without 

 European specimens for comparison I do not like to say that 

 the two are identical. 



