OF NEW ZEALAND. 41 



with short and close blackish hair. Scutellum rust-red, blackish on 

 the base. Abdomen metallic-green ; blue or violet at the base with a 

 semicircular greyish spot ; each segment is pale blackish in the centre 

 and on the margin, so that the shining metallic parts are distinct. 

 Head black, lower face rather greyish-dusted, prominence shining 

 blackish-brown. Front of male rather broad, yellow above the antennse, 

 and on the sides black dusted with white ; front of female broad. 

 Antennae rust-red, their bases blackish ; the third joint round and 

 large ; style black. Proboscis brown. Legs black ; the point of the 

 middle thighs, base of the tibiae, &c., rust-yellow ; thighs with yellow 

 hair on the lower side ; the tarsi with red tomentum. Wings tinged 

 brownish, scales dirty rust-yellow. 

 Length, 41—6 lines. 



aenus-HELOPHILUS. 



Meigen. 



Face prominent. Antennae inserted, and a projection on the front ; 

 third joint almost orbicular. Eyes separated in both sexes. Abdomen 

 depressed. Thighs thickened ; shanks incurved, generally prolonged 

 by a point. Cubital cell pediform.^ 



H. TRiLiNEATUs. Fabricius, Syst. Ent. (1775), 7;. 7QQ. Voy. 

 "Ereb." and "Terror," Insects, pi. 7,/. 19. 



Head yellow ; margins of the lips, antennae, and vertex black; style 

 of antennae tomentose. Thorax tomentose, pale, with three broad 

 black lines. Abdomen black, with an interrupted ferruginous band 

 at the base. Legs ferruginous ; the four anterior femora black at the 

 base ; the hinder pair all black, one-toothed ; posterior tibiae incurved, 

 ferruginous, the base black. 



New Zealand (Sir J. Banks, Dr. Sinclair, Earl). 



H. iNEPTUs. Walker, I.e., p. 608 (1849). 



Head yellow, black on the crown and about the base of the 

 antennae ; eyes pitchy, all the facets very small ; mouth and antennae 

 black ; style naked. Thorax dark brown, clothed with black hairs, 

 adorned with two hoary stripes on the back, and with a yellow stripe 

 on each side, having a brassy hue towards the hinder part, especially 

 on the scutellum, whose hind border is tawny. Abdomen brassy, oval, 

 nearly flat, a little broader and shorter than the thorax, clothed with 



* Nowicki mentions a Selojphilus selandicus (Fabr.) from New Zealand. I can find no 

 description of it. 

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