OF NEW ZEALAND. 67 



S, scioMYZiNA. Schiner, I.e., p.278 (1868). 



Thorax rust-yellow. Abdomen black. Head black; lower face 

 standing back a little ; rim of the eyes with white streaks. Antennae 

 blackish-brown ; style pubescent. Legs black-brown ; hips and root 

 of thighs yellow ; middle and hinder tarsi light brown. Wings tinged 

 brownish. 



Length, 2i lines. 



S. (?) DECORA. Schiner, I.e., p. 277 (1868). 



Dark-brown. Thorax paler, with two separate white streaks from 

 the front over the scutellum. Abdomen rather shining. Sides of 

 the breast with whitish lines and spots. Head brown ; front paler, 

 with a reddish-yellow centre, and with white streaks on the margin of 

 the eyes, which are also continued on the lower face ; lower face 

 yellow-red ; proboscis with large lips ; palpi longish, arcuate. Legs 

 rather slim, those in the front lengthened ; tibiae clavate and shorter 

 than the tarsi. Legs brown ; middle tibise almost altogether, and 

 hinder tibise with part of the middle, yellowish ; tarsi the same ; the 

 last joint of posterior limb brown. Wings very slightly tinged with 

 yellow ; veins normal ; the two cross-veins twice as wide apart as the 

 hinder one on the rim of the wing. 



Length, ^ line. 



(}enus-SCIOMYZA. 



Fallen. 



Head large. Face perpendicular, epistome not projecting, naked. 

 Front very broad. Antennae short, inclined, distant ; the third joint 

 oblong, obtuse ; style plumose or naked. Eyes round. Abdomen 

 depressed. 



S. NiGRicoRNis. Macquart, I.e., Supp. 4, p. 277, pi. 25, f. 11 (1850). 



No bristles on the epistome. Face and front fulvous, with thin 

 whitish down ; frontal band testaceous. The two first joints of the 

 antennae testaceous ; the third black, slightly elongated ; style naked, 

 tomentose at the base. Thorax testaceous, with indistinct bands. 

 Abdomen testaceous, short. Thighs a little swollen, the tip black, 

 the first pair in the male armed with bristles ; tibiae fulvous, the tips 

 black ; tarsi black, the first joint yellow. Wings yellow. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Akaroa and Tasmania. 



