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tibiae apically, and the pro- and meso-tarsi is a brush of long brown hairs, 

 the protarsi being elongated (fig. 16) ; on the middle legs this brush is 

 represented by short stiff hairs ; posterior tibiae yellowish-brown on basal 

 part, strongly bent and swollen apically (fig. 17) ; posterior tarsi with a 

 short golden brush beneath, the pro tarsus not quite half the length of the 

 whole joint and somewhat swollen ; anterior and middle femora with 

 scattered greyish hairs ; all the tibiae and tarsi clothed with short hair-like 

 bristles ; the onychotarsi bristly, a few of the bristles being long and delicate ; 

 claws large ; pulvilli with numerous papillae ; posterior coxae with silvery 

 hairs. Wings (fig. 2) slightly tinged with brown ; veins and stigma brown ; 

 cross-veins slightly clouded ; alula long and narrow, reaching almost to 



Fig. 2. — Cheilosia leptospermi n. sp. : wing. 



anal angle which is strongly developed and in line with posterior margin of 

 the wing, squamae and anti-squamae opal- white, the former fringed with 

 long rigid white hairs and the latter with short ones ; halteres brown. 



Abdomen rectangular in outline, clothed with scattered short white 

 hairs lengthening along the sides of 1st and 2nd segments ; each segment 

 transversely rugose ; apical segment brilliant cupreous, the remainder dull 

 bronzy-blue ; genitalia brownish. 



cJ. Length, 6-5 mm. 



Holotype : No. 524, D. M. 



Habitat. — Wallacetown (A. Philpott). 



C. howesii n. sp.* 



A rather small robust shiny bronze fly with no colour-pattern. 



$. Eyes bare, comparatively small, broadly dichoptic ; ocellar triangle 

 black clothed with a few hairs ; front broad, shiny bronze, clothed with 

 conspicuous dark-brown hairs which are longer and more erect across vertex; 

 lunular area large and deep blue. Antennae short, lying flat on face, well 

 separated basally ; 1st and 2nd joints black, somewhat longer than the 

 3rd, and destitute of hairs or bristles ; 3rd joint orbicular though rather 

 quadrangular, dark reddish-brown with a lighter reflection caused by a 

 minute pubescence. ; arista short, stout, dark reddish-brown, and minutely 

 pubescent. Face shiny, deep blue, clothed with a silvery pubescence and 

 scattered short silvery hairs except on protuberances ; in profile (fig. ] 8) 

 straight but running forward to tubercle, below which the oral margin 

 projects as a pointed protuberance ; lower facial angles rounded at oral 

 cavity ; cheeks shiny bronzy-black but greyish in some lights and clothed 

 with silvery hairs ; occiput black with erect greyish hairs above ; proboscis 

 blackish-brown, palpi brown. 



* Named after Mr. W. G. Howes, of Dunedin. 



