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Calliphora icela. 



This species is common throughout the season. 



Calliphora antennatis. 



Evidently rare. I have captured three specimens in all — one at Ocean 

 Beach, October (1908) ; a second on the beach at the Nuggets a few days 

 later ; and a third at Barewood, Central Otago, December (1908). 



Calliphora laemica. 



Found in most localities during the season ; common. 



Muscina stabulans. 



Not uncommon. I captm'ed a number at Roslyn during September 

 (1908 and 1909) ; also in May and October (1908). 



Fam. Anthomyid^, 



Trichophthicus maculipennis. 



I captured a single specimen on a very warm day at Roslyn, February 

 (1909). 



Trichophthicus dolosus. 



Three specimens were captured at Purakanui during January (1909), 

 and two others at Dunedin in the following month. 



Trichophthicus melas. 



I captured one specimen during a very suni\y day, at Roslyn, November 

 (1908) ; two more were obtained from Mount Cargill, also during a sunny 

 day in February (1909). 



Trichophthicus limpidus. 



Abvmdant. Found in a swamp at the Nuggets, October (1908), and 

 captured in a swamp ])ehind the sea-beach of Murdering Bay during Janu- 

 ary and February (1909). 



Trichophthicus carbonarius. 



Not very common. In October (1908) four specimens were obtained 

 from a swamp at the Nuggets, and only one from among rushes, Pura- 

 kanui, February (1909). 



Trichophthicus ordinatus. 



Two specimens were captured in a swamp at the Nuggets, October 

 (1908). 



Trichophthicus villosus. (Hutton, Trans., N.Z. Inst., vol. xxxiv, p. 171.) 



Abundant. This fly is recorded from the Auckland Islands, but not 

 from New Zealand, by Captain Hutton. Taken in large numbers from 

 a swampy locality at Purakanui, January (1909). 



Limnophora rapax. (Plate XXVIII, fig. 3.) 



Common diu-ing December (1908) and January (1909) at Roslyn, and 

 on the banks of a stream on Momit Cargill. 



Homalomyia canicularis. 



A common house-fly, which is introduced. 



