134 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Diplcra. 



MUSCIDAE. 



CALLirHORA. Robineau-l)o8voidy. " P]ssai sur les Mvodaiivs." 433 (183(1). 



Among the specimens of this genus was one wliieh was well marked off from the 

 other New Zealand species l)v its completely yellow legs. 



Calliphora flavipes, sp. nov. 



Size. — Length, i) mm. ; wing, 8 mm. 



Head. — Frons black, with lighter eye-margins ; facial ridges and a short stripe 

 under the front part of eye dusky orange ; jowls black. Eyes bare. Antennne with 

 the basal joints orange, the 3rd joint dark testaceous, but lighter on the inner side. 



Thorax blackish, with no distinct stripes. The prothoracic and metathoracic 

 stigmata with the usual bright-orange spots. 



Wings pellucid, slightly suffused with yellow at the base ; veins yellow at the 

 base, darker at the tip ; the usual yellow scales at the base of the wing. The bend 

 of the 4th vein is only slightly curved ; the hind cross-vein moderately undulated. 

 Halteres orange. Squamae yellow-brown. 



Legs. — All the joints of all the legs are orange, but the last tarsal joints are very 

 slightly darkened. 



Abdomen. — The basal segment is concolorous with the thorax ; the other seg- 

 ments are dark violet. 



Hab. — Carnley Harbour. 



Type. — Cambridge Museum. 



ANTHOMYIIDAE. 



Among the specimens sent, two were referred with more or less certainty to the 

 species Trichopticus villosus and Limnophora aucklandica of Hutton. With one ex- 

 cejjtion, it seemed at present best to place the other specimens under the genera 

 as recognised by Hutton. In some cases, however, the species do not satisfactorily 

 fall m line with the European forms usually placed in the genera, and there can be 

 little doubt that when the Diptera of New Zealand and the subantarctic islands are 

 more fully known some of the present species will have to be jjlaced in new genera. 

 It is necessary, however, to have a much larger amount of material at disjsosal 

 before the limits of the New Zealand insects can be made out. 



Limnophora, Robineau-Desvoidy. " Essai sur les Myodaires," 517 (1830). 



The species of this genus should have bare eyes, but among the insects sent were 

 two species from the Auckland Islands which had respectively slightly pubescent 

 and very hairy eyes. These were sent to Professor Stein, who is of opinion that they, 

 nevertheless, are members of the genus. The species with only slightly pubescent 

 eyes is rather rubbed, but in most respects it agrees very well with the description 

 of Button's species L. aucklandica. In the description of that species the eyes are 

 said to be bare, but in the specimen under consideration the pubescence is slight, 

 though definite. In default of more and better material it seems best to refer this 

 specimen to that species. 



