MiLLEK.-— .Vew Species nf New Zealand Eiupididae. 



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ueut, occupying the greater part of the vertex ; the ocelli are orange, and 

 between them are delicate bristles, a pair of which are larger and divergent, 

 represeiiting the ocellar pair. Face greyish-brown with silvery reflections, 

 slightly hairy, and in profile rounded at the epistome ; "^the oral margin is 

 dark brown with a light-brown tomentum and scattered brown hairs, while 

 the lower margin of the head is slightly sinuated J^andf conies into contact 

 with the lower corner of the eye (fig. 2). Antennae dark brown, with a 

 greyish tomentum, about as long as the height of the head ; the 1st joint, 

 bearing short~stif5 and delicate bristles, is longer than the 2nd and about 

 one-half as long as the 3rd, minus the flagellum ; the 2nd joint is spherical, 

 with stiff delicate bristles ; and the 3rd, which is broad at the base but taper- 

 ing distally, is black with a greyish tomentum ; the flagellum is less than 

 une-halffthe length of the 3rd joint, but has more tomentum, and bears 

 a, minute naked terminal^ appendage. Proboscis homy and shiny-black, 

 rapering'to^a point,|[and about as long as the height of the head ; the^alpi 



Fio. -2. 



Fig. 1. — Dorsal view of hoad, showing chaetotaxy. 



Fig. 2.— Profile of h-^ad. 



Fig. 3. — Dorsum and scutellum, showing chaetotaxy. pro, pro-thoracic bristles ; 



npl, noto-pleural bristles; pa, post-alar bristles. 

 Fig. 4:. — Showing auxiliary vein and structure of 1st longitudinal. 

 Fig. 5. — Hyp )pygium in profile. 



are brown with scattered hairs, about as long as the proboscis, broad and 

 flattened distally, and notclied in the centre of the posterior margin. Occi- 

 put with brown and greyish reflections, and bearing delicate short bristles. 



Thorax prominent, but not humped, grey, with 4 dark-brown almost 

 black stripes, the outer ones being anteriorly shorter than the inner, while 

 before the scutellum the dorsum is brownish-grey, with a delicate median 

 stripe in certain lights. On the dorsum are rows of short delicate bristles, 

 a pair of divergent pro-thoracic bristles (fig. 3, fro), a single noto-pleural 

 [n/pl) below the line of the dorsal suture, a pair of post-alars {fa), and a few 

 hairs on the humeri and pro-pleurae. Scutellum broad and greyish-brown, 

 but darker towards the base, bearing convergent marginal bristles except 

 on the apex, towards which they strengthen. Halteres long, with light- 

 brown stalks and darker heads. 



Wings faintly tinged with brown, the stigma and veins dark brown, the 

 latter lighter towards the articulation. Auxiliary vein evanescent at the 

 tip, not reaching the costa ; the 1st longitudinal appears as two veins which 



