58 DIPTERA 



yellow-brown. Palpi yellow, tlie point "brown. Proboscis and legs 

 black. Basal half of the tibiae, and tarsi from basis, yellow. Wings 

 hyaline ; on the fore-rim a brownish washed-out spot. Poisers 

 whitish. 



Female. Sides of breast whitish-grey. Abdomen metallic-black ; 

 yellow on the first and second segments ; grey side-patches ; belly 

 whitish-grey. Front broad ; a small middle streak, forked backwards. 

 Antennaj and palpi dark brown. Legs with a large brownish-yellow 

 patch on the thighs and tibiae. 



Lengthy 8-82 lines. 



Genns-CALLIPHORA. 



Macquart. 

 Face bordered with hairs ; epistome a little projecting. Antennae 

 nearly reaching the epistome ; the third joint four times as long as the 

 second ; style plumose. Abdomen hemispherical. First posterior 

 cell reaching the border of the wing a little before the extremity ; 

 discoidal nerve generally strongly arched after the elbow. 



C. DASYOPHTHALMA. Mucquavt, l.c, VoL II., p» 130, pi. 16, /. 2 

 (1842). 



Female. Proboscis black; palpi fulvous. Face blackish-brown, 

 with thin grey down ; cheeks brown, with grey down and black hairs ; 

 an intermediate band of deep brown, with longitudinal striae. 

 Antennae black with thin grey down. Eyes hairy, with yellow hairs. 

 Thorax bluish-black, with indistinct longitudinal bands of white reflec- 

 tions ; the sides with a little elongated longitudinal fulvous patch ; 

 scutellum blackish-brown. Abdomen brilliant blue, with violet re- 

 flections ; no down. Legs black ; a little fulvous at the extremities 

 of the thighs, and at the bases of the anterior and intermediate tibiae. 

 Scales blackish, bordered with little whitish hairs. Wings greyish ; 

 base and exterior border slightly yellowish ; a fulvous spot at the 

 base. 



Length, 5^ lines. 



Auckland Islands ; New Zealand. 



Probably the same as the next species. 



C. QUADRiMACULATA. Swedcrus, Nya Handling, VIII., j). 289, n. 49 



(1787). 



Head brown, sparingly tomentose, with a few black bristles. 



Proboscis black. Palpi yellow. Antennae inserted in a frontal groove, 



grey ; seta with black hairs. Thorax sub-tomentose, black, the fore- 



