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the middle, a third broader than long, apex medially truncate but obliquely 
prolonged at the sides, its obtuse angles extending to the middle of the 
eyes; the sides distinctly and evenly margined, gently rounded at and 
before the middle, narrowed but with straight sides near the base, which is 
feebly and widely emarginate, with rectangular angles; disc moderately 
finely and closely punctured, more irregularly and less closely at the sides, 
discal groove shallow and abbreviated, with a broad but not very definite 
impression near each of the anterior and posterior angles and a median 
fovea at each side. Scutellum broad, nearly smooth. Elytra almost 
elongate-cordate, rather wider than thorax at the base, their well-developed 
lateral margins becoming slender towards the apices ; their sculpture very 
irregular, consisting of interrupted, moderately finely punctured striae near 
the suture, but along the greater portion towards the sides the striae are 
so much abbreviated and interrupted that they leave elongate, almost 
confluent, irregularly formed, nearly flat spaces, almost quite smooth. There 
are a few slender suberect setae, and very minute ones can be detected on 
the thorax. 
Anterior tibiae stout, evenly curvate externally, with short flavescent 
setae below the middle of the inner side. Penultimate tarsal joint excavate 
above but not truly bilobed. 
P. chalmeri (1405), which most nearly resembles this in coloration, is 
really very different in other details. 
Length, 11 mm.; breadth, 43 mm. 
Hollyford, north of Lake Wakatipu. A single specimen of this con- 
spicuous species was captured on the 19th February, 1914, at a height of 
3,500 ft., by Mr. T. Hall, in whose honour it has been named. 
3851. Pheloneis angulatus sp. nov. 
Suboblong-oval, only moderately convex, shining; fusco-niger, faintly 
aeneous, legs piceous, antennae and tarsi piceo-rufous. 
Head slightly uneven, broadly impressed between the antennae, dis- 
tinctly and irregularly punctured, the epistome more finely. Thorax almost 
a third broader than long near the middle but appearing more elongate ; 
its base rather wider than the apex, subtruncate, but with its quite rect- 
angular angles projecting slightly backwards ; the sides obtusely subangulate 
behind the middle, obliquely but not curvedly narrowed anteriorly, apex 
deeply emarginate, with obtuse but unusually prominent angles; disc 
somewhat irregularly, moderately closely and finely punctured, marginal 
channels broad and shallow, the margins distinct and reflexed, the basal 
and zpical less developed, discal groove obsolete. Scutellum subtriangular, 
moderately large, nearly smooth. Elytra rather wider than thorax at the 
base, more than twice its length, their sides nearly straight for half their 
length, gradually attenuate posteriorly ; each with 8 moderately finely 
punctured striae, which, however, become somewhat irregular towards the 
sides and apices; interstices nearly plane, finely and moderately closely 
punctate, the 3rd broader than the others. 
The shape of the thorax is somewhat similar to that of a Syrphetodes ; 
there is, therefore, sufficient justification for its separation from P. appositus 
(3751), to which otherwise it is most nearly related. 
Length, 12 mm.; breadth, 53 mm. 
Mount Dick. A solitary individual found by Mr. T. Hall on the 26th 
January, Hels 
