OF NEW ZEALAND, 31 



salient composed o£ long hairs bordered by still longer and thicker 

 bristles. Proboscis elongated^ the extremity obtuse. Palpi slender, 

 a little hairy. Third joint of the antennae straight above^ slightly 

 convex below, and ending in a point. Legs with long hairs ; posterior 

 femora thick, straight below, very convex above; posterior tibiae ter- 

 minated by an obtuse ]3oint, bordered with short bristles. Terminal 

 vein of the fourth posterior cell slightly rounded. Colours brilliant. 



L. jEnea. Fabricius. L. colo?'ata: Boisduval, Voy. '' Astrolabe J" L. 

 ceneci: Macquart, Dipt. Ex. 1, pt. 2, p. 61, pi. G, fig. 1. 



Metallic blue. Abdomen marked on each side with white. 

 Whiskers golden. Wings blackish-brown. 



Length, 7 lines. 



Java; Solomon Islands and New Ireland (Macquart) ; New Zea- 

 land (Nowicki) . 



Family — Midasid^. 



Proboscis generally short. Antennae generally longer than the head, 

 five-jointed ; the third very long, the fourth shorter ; fifth clubbed, 

 excavated at the extremity. 



aenus-MIDAS. 

 Fabricius. 



Proboscis short ; terminal lips triangular, compressed. 



M. MACQUARTi. ScMncr, I.e. M. clavata : Macquart, I.e., Supp. 4, 

 p. 59, 2il- 4, /. 5 (1850) . 

 Proboscis a little elongated. Palpi black. Face shining-black, 

 the moustache yellowish. Front black. Antennae black ; the first 

 joint rather elongated and thick. Thorax black, slightly shining, with 

 two bands of yellow down ; shoulders prominent, fulvous ; a fulvous 

 spot on each side on the posterior border ; sides shining-black ; scu- 

 tellum fulvous, a small black spot in the middle. Abdomen com- 

 pressed, shining-black ; second to the fifth segments with a lateral 

 fulvous spot, broad on the anterior border, ending in a point before 

 reaching the posterior border; belly with lateral elongated spots. 

 Coxae black ; femora fore and middle black, with a little yellow at the 

 base and at the tip ; the hind pair with the anterior portion slender 

 and yellow, the posterior portion with two rows of spines below ; 

 anterior and middle tibiae black outside, yelloAV inside ; the posterior 

 pair black with yellow at the base ; tarsi black, the first joint of the 

 anterior pair yellow, and the first and second joints of the middle and 

 hinder pairs yellow ; first joint of the posterior pair with spines below. 



