36 DIPTERA 



face^ broad ; obtusely pointed in the male, slender in the female. 

 Face with white down and hairs. Front black, anteriorly with white 

 hairs ; the rest naked. Antennse testaceous-yellow ; base of the first 

 joint, and the last divisions of the third joint black. Eyes naked. 

 Thorax black, with thin white or yellowish down. Scutellum with four 

 long spines, yelloAv, blackish at the base. Abdomen blackish-blue, 

 with violet reflections ; incisions with thin Avliite down. Borer of the 

 female with two small hairy points, black, and two other shorter and 

 broader pieces, under these points ; genitalia of the male small. 

 Thiglis black, the base white ; the posterior pair rather swollen towards 

 the extremity ; tibiaj and tarsi of the first and middle pairs pale 

 yellow; the middle blackish below; posterior tibiae thick, black, the 

 base white ; posterior tarsi with the first joint white, not swollen in 

 the male ; the others black. Poisers whitish. Wings with the 

 posterior half brownish, clearer towards the tip ; stigma brown, a small 

 hyaline patch on the exterior border near the base of the submarginal 

 cell ; five posterior cells. 



New South Wales (Weidemann) ; New Zealand (" Rcise der 

 'Novara'"). 



E. ANALis. NovAcki, l.c.,p,\\ (1875). 



Female. Thorax purplish-seneous, humeral callus and scutellum 

 rufous ; abdomen rufous, the apical third purplish-aeneous ; legs 

 rufous, the anterior tarsi brownish-black ; Avings ochraceous, a sharplj'^ 

 defined brown mark through the discoidal cell, getting blackish-brown 

 towards the stigma, Avliich also is brownish ; the mark is distinctly 

 paler between the stigma and the second submarginal cell. 



Length, 31—4! lines ; wing, 2f— 3^ lines. 



New Zealand (EdAvards). 



E. sTRAZNiTZKii. Noivicki , I.e., p. 14 (1875). 



Male and Female. Red ; thorax ornamented with black lines and 

 spots, wdth aineous reflections ; abdomen from the apex to the 

 posterior limb of the fifth segment aeneous-purple ; Avings pale luteous, 

 in the immature almost hyaline ; through the middle of the apex a 

 brownish mark, paler in the first submarginal cell, and continued 

 behind the fifth vein far into the anal cell ; stigma blackish-brow^n, 

 the apex of the marginal cell lutescent. 



Length, 4-4^ lines ; wing, Si— 3o lines. 



New Zealand (Edwards). 



