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the anterior margin of the thorax^ and posterior angles and middle of 

 the posterior margins of the second, third, and fourth abdominal 

 segments, all the hairs are pale, on the lateral margins of the abdomen 

 black and pale fasciculi alternate conspicuously. Wings cinereous, 

 smeared with black ; the first posterior cell narrow, the fourth broadly 

 open, the anterior branch of the third longitudinal vein not appendi- 

 culate. 



Length, 6|-7i lines. Wing, 6-7 lines. 



New Zealand (Edwards). 



aenus-PELECORHYNCHUS. 



Macquart. 



Head as large as the thorax. Proboscis as long as the head ; lips 

 thick, in form of a hatchet ; palpi short, rounded, depressed. Face 

 hairy, and convex in the male, less so in the female. Antennse as in 

 Pangonia. Eyes naked. Ocelli. Posterior femora without spurs, 

 shortly ciliated outside and inside. First posterior cell open. 



Australia. 



P. ORNATUS. Schiner, I.e., p. 98 (1868). 



Female. Thorax black, with brown tomentum ; two black clavate 

 spots on the tip, close to two slate-blue longitudinal streaks which join 

 behind, just in front of the scutellum ; hairy on the sides ; a bunch of 

 red hairs at the base of the wings, and further behind whitish hairs ; 

 breast yellowish- white with a few black hairs in the middle. Scutellum 

 black, hairy, the point with a bunch of red hairs. Abdomen black ; 

 first segment with a whitish semicircle which ends in a four-cornered 

 spot ; fifth segment with a transverse band ; second to fourth with a 

 seam of reddish hair on the back, the lower surface like the upper, 

 the white transverse markings rather larger. Head with the convex 

 part of the face brownish, with black hairs ; sides with whitish down ; 

 front brown with lateral bands of brown down, and a little white down 

 in front of them. Palpi testaceous, with white hairs. The two first 

 joints of the antennse brown, as also are the four last divisions of the 

 third, the rest red. Legs dark yellowish-red, with pale-yellow hairs. 

 Wings hyaline, with dark-brown rim, and three spots of the same 

 colour ; the first on the base of the basal cell ; tlie second from the 

 middle cross-vein to the postical vein; the third broken up into 

 spots. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Auckland. 



