52 DIPTERA 



tapering towards the tip, thinly beset with short black bristles^ armed 

 on the sides of the hind borders of the segments and at the tip with 

 black spines ; black at the base, and having an interrupted black stripe 

 from the middle to the tip of the back. Legs tawny, clothed with 

 black hairs, beset with black bristles ; feet black ; foot-cushions tawny. 

 Wings slightly grey ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy ; tip cross-vein 

 forming a right angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, which sends 

 forth a short stump beyond it, very slightly curved along the whole 

 length, joining the border at some distance above the tip of the wing ; 

 lower cross-vein with two curves, the lower inward and very distinct, 

 the other outward and very slight. Scales pale tawny. 



Length, 5i lines. 



Perhaps this species belongs to Clytia, 



New Zealand (Dr. Sinclair). 



Genus-MELANOPHORA. 



Meigen. 



Body generally small, narrow. Face generally naked, more or less 

 elevated ; epistome not projecting. Antennae of various lengths ; style 

 tomentose or thinly haired. Eyes generally naked. Abdomen 

 cylindrical ; no bristles in the middle of the segments. First posterior 

 cell open or closed, often petiolate ; the exterior border generally 

 furnished with a point. 



M. (?) sosiLUs. Walker, I.e., p. 796 (TacMna), (1849). 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles. Eyes red, not 

 hairy. Proboscis, palpi, and antennae black. Abdomen oval, hardly 

 longer than the thorax. Legs black, clothed with black hairs and 

 bristles ; foot-cushions dark tawny. Wings white ; wing-ribs and 

 veins yellow ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse angle with the 

 fourth longitudinal vein, very slightly curved oiitward, joining the 

 third longitudinal vein at some distance from the tip of the latter; 

 lower cross-vein very slightly curved inward, nearly straight at the 

 base and at the tip. 



Length, l4 lines. 



Sub-Family — DEXiAEiiE. 



Style of antennae plumose. Face generall}'- keeled. Legs 

 elongated. Abdomen generally cylindrical ; sometimes two bristles in 

 the middle of the segments. 



