OF NEW ZEALAND. 69 



O. APiCALis. Walker, I.e., p. 1114 (1849). 



Body pale ferruginous^ shining. Head and tliorax beset with 

 very few black bristles. Head pale tawny beneath; eyes red; pro- 

 boscis, palpi, and antennoe pale tawny. Antennae much shorter than 

 the face ; third joint conical, longer than the second ; style slender, 

 black, downy, tawny at the base, more than thrice the length of the 

 third joint. Abdomen oval, a little longer than the thorax, pitchy 

 above, except at the base. Legs tawny; claws black. Wings colour- 

 less; a brown spot at the tip between the second and third longi- 

 tudinal veins. Wing-ribs tawny; veins pitchy, tawny towards the 

 base ; longitudinal veins straight ; lower cross-vein nearly straight, 

 almost upright, parted by more than twice its length from the middle 

 cross-vein, by more than thrice its length from the end of the fourth 

 longitudinal vein, and by less than half its length from the end of the 

 fifth longitudinal vein. Poisers whitish. 



Length, \\ lines. 



New Zealand (Sir J. Hooker). 



Sub-Eamily — HETEEOMYziNiE. 

 Third joint of the antennse round. More than one cross-vein in 

 the wmg, distant from each other. Wings longer than the abdomen. 

 First joint of the tarsi not dilated. 



Genus-CCELOPA. 



Meigen. 



Body oblong. Head rather small. Proboscis thick. Palpi 

 small, oval. Face short, very concave ; epistome salient, hairy. 

 Front very broad, flat, obtusely advanced, covered with long bristles. 

 Antennae retracted, the second joint thick, bordered with bristles, the 

 third smaller, lenticular. Eyes almost round. Thorax elongated, 

 enlarged behind ; scutellum small. Abdomen oblong, of five distinct 

 segments. Feet very thick; the second, third, and fourth joints of 

 the tarsi conical. Wings long. 



C. LITTORALIS, Sp. HOV. 



Grey. A broad band on the head, stretching up on each side of 

 the ocelli. Antennse, palpi, proboscis, and legs reddish-brown. Legs 

 and abdomen with long black hairs ; thorax with short black hairs. 

 Wings hyaline, with brown veins. 



Length : Male, 2\ lines ; female, 3 lines. 



Dunedin; Wellington. On seaweed^ common. 



