Contributions to the Diptera of Neio Zealand : hi/ A. G. 

 Butler, F.L.S., &c. 



Whilst looking over some old MSS. in the British 

 Museum a short time since, Mr. White's imperfect MS. 

 Catalogue of the Insects of the •' Erehus and Terror " was 

 discovered ; the foUowhig are a few of the descriptions con- 

 tained therein, which appear from Captain Hutton's List, 

 not to have been published up to the present time. 



GENUS LIMNOBIA. 

 L. fumipennis, n. sp. 



Tipula (Cylindrotoma) fumipennis, White MS. 



Head and thorax dark-hrown, abdomen dark-brown, 

 with a widish pale line at the base in the middle ; legs 

 black ; wings lilackish, the veins at the end margined with 

 a deeper black than the general surface of the wings. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



GENUS PAN60NIA. 

 P. lerda, n. sp. 



Talmnus lerda, White MS. 



Palpi and antennie yellowish-l)rown, the latter blackish 

 at the end. Face and front with greyish down ; thorax 

 al)ove black ; a line of deep-brown hairs on each side ; a 

 tuft of yellowish hairs on each side, near the base of the 

 wings ; scutellum black ; abdomen above ferruginous 

 brown, black in the middle, the terminal segments with 

 yellowish hairs on the margins ; under side of the tliorax 

 with longish yellow hairs in front and on the sides, in the 

 middle greyish ; abdomen beneath ferruginous, almost 

 without hairs ; legs ferruginous without hairs ; no tooth on 

 the third joint of the anteinia\ 



Hab. New Zealand. 



