OF NEW ZEALAND. 11 



blacky palpi light brown ; antennae light yellow, the four or five last 

 joints black. Legs yellow, femora and tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, 

 with brown spots ; the mediastinal and subcostal cells intense brown, 

 with the exception of a lighter spot behind the base of the last ; 

 basal cell brown in the middle, in the brown a small light spot ; from 

 these the brown colour extends round the posterior portion of the 

 basal cells ; the small cross vein is also thick and edged with brown ; 

 behind the point of the discoidal cell the brown colour extends up- 

 ward, but does not quite reach the brown edging of the wing ; round 

 the point of the wing less intense brown, in the lower part of which a 

 sharply-bounded space is left entirely colourless ; there is also a cloudy 

 or darkish colour on the edge of the wing, especially round the anal 

 and axillary cells ; the postical vein is very thick. Poisers yellow. 

 Length, 3 lines. 



Genus-MYCETOPHILA. 



Meigen. 



Antennae filiform, rather short; the two first joints cyathiform, 

 separated from the others, the others cylindrical. Eyes oval ; two 

 ocelli on their internal borders. Abdomen compressed in the female. 

 Tibiae with two rows of lateral spines. Subcostal cell simple. 



M. GUTTATA, Sp. nOV. 



Female. Thorax pale fulvous, with four longitudinal brown 

 streaks ; the two inside streaks, starting from the anterior end, taper 

 backward and end some distance in front of the scutellum; the two 

 outside streaks, commencing about one-fourth its length from the 

 anterior border, are continued to the posterior border. Scutellum 

 pale fulvous, with a brown anterior central patch. Abdomen blackish- 

 brown, the two or three anterior segments fulvous in front and below. 

 Head fulvous, with a brown stain on the occiput. Two ocelli, each 

 surrounded with a dark-brown ring. Antennai and palpi fulvous, the 

 antennae brownish near the tip. Legs fulvous. Wings tinged pale 

 brown, with brown veins. A brown patch at the base, and another 

 in the centre of the first posterior cell. A brown patch in the third, 

 and another in the fourth posterior cell. Base of the second pos- 

 terior much more advanced than that of the fourth posterior cell. 

 Poisers pale yellow. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Male. Paler, Abdomen yellow, with the posterior margin of 

 each segment brown. Spots on the wings paler. 



Wellington, Waikouati, and Dunedin. 

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