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conspicuous yellow spot at the insertion o£ the wings; the whole 

 covered with hairs, and with long black bristles. Scutellum black. 

 Abdomen metallic-blue. Head dark pitch-brown ; an orange spot on 

 each side of the lower face between the antennse and the eyes. Third 

 joint of the antennas bright orange ; first and second joints and style 

 black. Proboscis dark pitch-brown ; palpi orange. Eyes naked. 

 Legs black; a spot on the exterior of the anterior coxse^ and the knees 

 of all the legs, reddish. Wings tinged with dusky ; veins normal. 

 Calyptrai black, Poisers orange. 



Length, 5 lines. 



Dunedin. 



This species is intermediate between C. dasyophthalma and C. aureo- 

 punctata, but is easily recognized from all our other blue-bottle flies 

 by the third joint of its antennae being orange-yellow. 



C. vioLACEA. Macquart, Mus. Ex. 2, pt. 3, p. 128, tab. 16, /. 6. 



Violet. Thorax with white stripes. Palpi and face rufous. 

 Africa (Macquart); New Zealand (Nowicki). 



aenus-MUSCA. 



Linnaeus. 



Epistome slightly salient. Antennse nearly reaching the epistome ; 

 the third joint three times the length of the second ; style plumose. 

 First posterior cell reaching the margin of the wing near the 

 extremity ; discoidal vein a little concave after the elbow.'^ 



M. TAiTENSis. Macquart, I.e., Vol. II., p. 153, jo/. 20,/. 8 (1842). 



Palpi black. Face and front black ; sides with whitish down. 

 Antennse black. Thorax black with white bands. Abdomen marked 

 with black and yellow. Legs black. Scales yellowish. Wings 

 rather brownish ; discoidal cell extending as far as two-thirds of the 

 distance to the angle of the first posterior. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



Tahiti (Macquart) ; New Zealand (Dr. Sinclair). 



Genus-POLLENIA. 



Macquart. 



Face slightly swollen ; epistome a little projecting. Antennae 

 short, not reaching the middle of the face ; the second joint clawed ; 



* Musca vicaria (Walker) ia mentioned by Nowicki as coming from New Zealand. I 

 can find no description of it. 



