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oval ; style elongated^ a little enlarged at the extremity. Eyes 

 naked. Abdomen broader than the thorax. A discoidal cell ; sub- 

 costal narrow ; cubital large ; four incomplete posterior cells. 



H. BKUNNEUSj Sp. HOV. 



Thorax and scutellum pitch-brown^ with scattered yellow-brown 

 hairs. Abdomen brown^ the posterior margin of each segment yellow 

 above. Head black : eyes meeting. Antenna pitch-brown. Legs 

 brown. Wings hyaline; the costal and subcostal veins brown. 

 Lengthy 3 lines. 

 Lake Wanaka. 



Family — Asilidj3. 



Body elongated ; head with appendages ; the united mandibles 

 and ej)ipharynx form a piercer ; maxilla sharp ; labium pointed ; 

 tarsus with two pulvilli; antennae three- jointed. 



Genus-SAEOPOaON. 



Loew. 



Proboscis rather swollen in the middle. The two first joints of 

 the antennse shorty nearly equal; the third elongated, compressed, 

 rather fusiform ; style short, slender, conical, often of two distinct 

 joints. Abdomen cylindrical or depressed, obtuse ; genitalia hidden 

 in the male; anus with a row of points in the female. Anterior 

 femora furnished with a spine at the extremity. Subcostal cell ; and 

 four posteriors open. 



S. viDUUs. Walker, I.e., p. 354 (DasijpogonJ , (1849). 



Body black ; head narrower than the thorax, clothed with grey 

 down, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, thinly clothed 

 beneath with grey hairs; crown piceous, beset on each side with black 

 hairs; epistome armed with twelve long black spines; eyes black; fore- 

 part flat ; its facets a little larger than those of the convex part. Lip 

 piceous, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; hypostoma and palpi black, 

 clothed with black hairs. Antennae black; first and second joints 

 with long black hairs; second joint a little shorter than the first ; third 

 joiiit spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first and the second, 

 clothed above with short black hairs ; fourth joint short ; fifth 

 extremely short. Thorax covered with grey down, beset on each side 

 and behind with long black bristles ; disc black, excepting two grey 

 stripes which are widened in front and behind, and are beset with a 

 few short black hairs. Abdomen slightly shining, with an indistinct 

 grey stripe on each side, tapering from the base to the tip, narrower 

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