63 DIPTERA 



the third double the second; style generally plumose. Thorax 

 covered with down. Wings almost closed ; the first posterior cell 

 open a little before the tip ; sometimes closed ; discoidal vein gene- 

 rally concave after the angle. 



P. (?) LiEMiCA. White. Dieffenbach's Neio Zealand, II., ^;. 291 

 (1843). Walker, I.e., p. 906. Voij. " Ereb.'' and' ' Terror," 

 P- 7, f. 18. 



Body tawny, clothed with black hairs and bristles. Head black 

 above, pale tawny in front, thicldy clothed beneath with golden hairs ; 

 a pitchy stripe, widening from the ocelli to the antennae; facials 

 obliquely striated ; epistome prominent ; sides of the face fringed 

 with bristles along half the length ; eyes brassy red, fore-part ilatj 

 composed of much larger facets than those elsewhere ; proboscis 

 black, pitchy, and clothed with pale-tawny hairs at the tip ; palpi 

 bright tawny, slender, slightly clavate, beset with black bristles. 

 Antennae black, a little shorter than the face ; first and second joints 

 ferruginous ; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, full four times the 

 length of the second. Style very much longer than the third joint. 

 Disc of the thorax grey, adorned with six indistinct dark-brown 

 stripes; breast thinly clothed with golden hairs. Abdomen dark 

 green, obconical, a little shorter and broader than the thorax, tessel- 

 lated with golden reflections, thickly clothed at the base and beneath 

 with bright golden hairs. Legs pale tawny, clothed with black hairs 

 and bristles; feet black; foot-cushions dark and tawny. Wings 

 colourless, tawny at the ' base ; wing-ribs ferruginous, veins black, 

 ferruginous towards the base; tip cross-vein forming hardly more 

 than a right angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, curved inward 

 near the base, straight from thence to the tip, joining the border at 

 some distance above the tip of the wing; lower cross-vein with two 

 curves, the lower inward, the other outward and very much deeper 

 than the first. Scales pale grey. Poisers tawny. 



Length, 4^—5 lines. 



Mr. White considered this species to belong to Sarcophaga. It 

 may belong to Cynomyia. 



New Zealand (Dr. Sinclair) ; Australia; Polynesia. 



Genus-CUETONEURA. 



Macquart. 



Epistome a little prominent. Antennae not reaching the epistome ; 

 the third joint at least triple the second ; style plumose. First pos- 



