BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 89 



(Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond. 1881, p. 381) remarks that Pedicia gracilis, 

 Walk., is marked in the British Museum as from New Zealand. 

 It may be found there, but I have not yet heard of its occurrence. 



400. Plusiomyia Ollipfi, sp.n. (PI. iv., fig. 9.) 



(J. — Length of antennae 0-210 inch ... 5-33 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-790xO-210 .. 20-05 x 5-33 



Size of body 0-625x0-120 ... 15-86x3-04 



Head brown ; rostrum and basal joints of antennae lighter 

 brown ; suctorial labella, palpi, and flagellar joints black ; first 

 flagellar joint with a distinct short branch beneath near the apex. 

 Thorax dusky brown, opaque, with a narrow median stripe (visible 

 in a certain light only) ; lateral margins somewhat ochreous ; brown 

 from pronotum (and collare) to origin of wings ; followed on the 

 pleurae with a hoary white stripe, beneath which is first a broad 

 brown .stripe followed by a broad hoary one next to the coxse ; 

 pectus ochreous-brown ; an oblong brownish-ochreous spot between 

 origin of wings and scutellum ; scutellum dark brown ; metano- 

 tum brown, somewhat hoary. Halteres black. Abdomen entirely 

 dusky brown. Coxae hoary. Remaining joints browish-ochreous 

 or testaceous, dusky brown towards tips of femora and tibise. 

 Wings with the anterior portion (above the fifth longitudinal vein) 

 brown (paler towards the apex), with two large and three small 

 white spots ; the posterior portion infuscated with greyish ; white 

 below the fifth longitudinal, particularly towards anal angle. First 

 large spot longitudinal, flattened-triangular, situated at distal end 

 of second basal cell, one of its sides parallel with and close to 

 great cross vein ; second large spot obliquely situated, oblong, about 

 equal in size to first, extending from posterior margin of discal 

 cell to costa (immediately beyond tip of anterior branch of second 

 longitudinal vein) ; a small oblong spot immediately before origin 

 of prsefurca, another similar one in fourth posterior cell, and 

 lastly a round dot in third posterior cell near its inner end. 

 Ultimate portion of anterior branch of second longitudinal vein 



