OF NEW ZEALAND. SI 



sordid red towards the base of the abdomen ; eyes hairy, unicoloured ; 

 first two joints of the antennae red, the third black, narrow ; halteres 

 blackish - brown ; wings brownish -cinereous, the veins and stigma 

 brown ; hairs all over the body almost all pale. 



Male. Palpi short, last joint ovate ; eyes touching ; thorax and 

 scutellum brown-black ; femora black, tibiae and the extreme apices of 

 the femora red ; tarsi, except the base, black-brown. 



Female. Palpi elongated, last joint narrow and prolonged ; front 

 between the eyes narrow and equal, with a small callus inferiorly ; 

 legs red ; tarsi, except the base, fuscous. 



Length, 6?— 74 lines. Wing, Q—7 lines. 



New Zealand (Edwards). 



T. TRANsvERsus. Walker, I.e., Supp., p. 256 (1854). 



Male and Female. Testaceous. Head and thorax with white 

 tomentum beneath. Antennae tawny, small, slightly curved, with 

 black tips ; third forming an obtuse angle, above. Thorax with four 

 brown stripes. Abdomen brown above, excepting a dorsal stripe and 

 the hind-borders of the segments. Tarsi brownish. Wings greyish ; 

 veins tawny ; stigma brown ; transverse veins black, first branch of 

 the cubital vein simple ; sub-anal vein joining the anal close to the 

 border. 



Length, 3i-4 lines. 



Auckland (Colonel Bolton). 



Genus-PANaONIA. 



Latreille. 



Proboscis long, slender, horizontal ; terminal lips indistinct. Face 



convex. Third joint of the antennae with eight divisions, of which 



the first is thick, and the last rather longer than the others. First 



posterior cell generally closed before the extremity. 



P. LARDA. Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt. I, p. 16 (1850). 



Head pale yellow above, hoary and thickly clothed with pale- 

 yellow hairs beneath ; a ferruginous club-shaped mark on the crown. 

 Eyes black, clothed with hoary hairs, parted above by a moderate 

 interval ; the facets very small. Sucker black, a little shorter than 

 the chest; lancets bright ferruginous; compound joint curved upward, 

 tapering from the base to the tip, much longer than the three pre- 

 ceding joints. Chest black ; sides ferruginous, clothed with tawny 

 hairs ; breast hoary, clothed with tawny hairs. Abdomen ferruginous, 

 obconical, a little broader and longer than the chest ; clothed with 



