OP NEW ZEALAND. 51 



E. MARGINATUSj Sp. TIOV. 



Metallic-blue ; scutellum bordered with fulvous. Thorax with 

 two indistinct longitudinal black lines. Legs black; middle of tibiee 

 of the two hind pairs rufous. Head and wings as in the last. 



Length, 31 lines. 



Dunedin. ^ 



E. cLATHRATUs. NowicM, l.c.,p. 27 (1875). 



Male. Black ; head and legs the same colour ; palpi luteous ; 

 second, third, and fourth segments of the abdomen ornamented with 

 a large red spot on each side, and (except the posterior margin) 

 dusted white, sprinkled with shining tessellations ; tegulse dirty- 

 whitish; wings cinereous. 



Length, 5 lines ; wing, 4i lines. 



New Zealand (Edwards). 



(}enus-MILTO&RAMMA. 



Meiffen. 



Body narrow. Head thick. Peristome bordered with little 

 bristles. Face almost naked, concave; epistome not salient. Front 

 salient, with short bristles. Antennae short, scarcely half the length 

 of the face, hidden in the cavity of the face ; the third joint generally 

 double the second ; style short, sometimes tomentose. Abdomen 

 cylindrical or conical, generally without bristles, even on the margins 

 of the segments. First posterior cell almost closed, reaching the 

 border of the wing before the tip ; discoidal vein curved after the 

 elbow ; no point on the exterior border. 



M. (?) MESTOR. Walker, I.e., p. 74^1 (1849). 



Head ferruginous, brighter on the face, along whoso sides there 

 are no bristles ; a pitchy stri]3e between the ocelli and the base of the 

 antennae ; underside clothed with white hairs ; epistome not prominent ; 

 proboscis black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; eyes red 

 with a brassy tinge, not hairy. Antennae ferruginous, very short, 

 half the length of the face; third joint nearly elliptical, longer than 

 the second, but not much deeper; style black, tapering, stout near 

 the base, very slender towards the tip, more than twice the length of 

 the third joint of the antennae ; its first and second joints of moderate 

 and equal lengths. Thorax and breast dark grey ; thorax clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; sides slightly ferruginous. Scutellum ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen tawny, rather long and narrow, nearly cylindrical. 



