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O. AMYRis. Walker ^ I.e., p. 535. 



Body black ; liead tawny beneath, full as broad as tlie chest, 

 metallic green on each side behind the eyes ; eyes bright red ; mouth 

 black ; feelers piceous, tawny beneath ; first and second joints tawny, 

 bristle black ; chest clothed with short tawny hairs ; breast tawny ; 

 scutclieon yelloAy, armed with two short yellow teeth ; abdomen black, 

 rather longer than broad, wider and a little longer than the chest, 

 sides and under-side yellow ; legs tawny ; wings colourless ; wing-ribs, 

 fore-borders, veins, and poisers tawny. 



Length, 32 lines; wing, 6 lines. 



New Holland (Walker) ; New Zealand (Nowicki) . 



Genus-CLITELLARIA. 



Meigen. 

 Antennae nine-jointed ; first and second joints equal ; flagellum 

 obclavate ; style distinct, two-jointed. Scutellum two-spined. 



C. ABERRANS. ScMner, I.e., p. 55 (1868). 



Black ; the whole body with a peculiar scale-like shining covering, 

 which however does not alter the colour, and only appears on the 

 abdomen as yellowish-white speckled. Thorax with short white 

 hairs. Spines of the scutellum short and blunt. Head black; 

 lower face above the border of the mouth with a white oblique band 

 of hairs, which is continued in a fine streak on the lower rim of the 

 eye ; the naked eyes of the male lie close together, and include nearly 

 the whole of the head. Antennae long, principally in the third joint, 

 as the two first joints are short ; the third indistinctly eight-ringed ; 

 without style. Legs black; the front tarsi yellow at the base, the last 

 pair yellow ; the second and third joints of the two last pairs totally 

 black. Poisers yellow. Wings hyaline, the edge deep brown ; 

 cubital vein straight, consequently the small cross vein of the dis- 

 coidal is absent. Discoid al cell short and broad, almost trapezoidal, 

 all four veins taking their rise out of the same, two and two near their 

 basis. Anal cell very broad ; the postical vein forming a bow, ending 

 in the anal vein. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



Auckland. 



Family — STEPHiDiE. 



Anteunse three-jointed, the last single, and generally with a dorsal 

 style ; proboscis with four bristles ; three posterior marginal cells, the 

 first closed ; a false longitudinal vein dividing the discoidal and first 

 posterior cells. 



