Diptera.] SUBANT ARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 143 



Head rounded, the upper lip slightly though sharply prominent. Labrum 

 narrowly visible below the mouth almost all round. Antennae normal. Eyes bare, 

 almost orbicular in side view, but the angles on the vertex are sharp and not 

 rounded. 



Thorax. — Much like AUophyla in form, but the mesopleura is hairy instead 

 of bare. 



Legs. — Front and hind normal ; middle with the above-mentioned strong 

 remote pair of preapical bristles. The small black apical spines on the tips of the 

 tarsal joints are much stronger than is usual in this family, especially those at the 

 tip of the first tarsal joint. 



Wings. — First ( = subcostal) vein considerably shorter than usual ; middle 

 cross- vein far beyond the junction of the first with the costa. Costal spines 

 minute. 



AUophylopsis punctata, sp. nov. 



Size, 5j mm. ; wing-length, 4^ mm. 



Head greyish-yellow, with a lighter triangular patch in front of the ocelli, which 

 is produced in a narrow stripe to the front of the head. The sides of this stripe and 

 of the patch are blackened. Antennae yellowish, with the outer side of the 3rd 

 joint blackened. Arista practically bare, the basal joint of the same being pale. 

 Proboscis yellow, a conspicuous black chitinous strip along the upper edge of the 

 same. 



Thorax yellow-grey, covered with minute black spots, on each of which is a 

 minute bristle. Pleurae pale and unspotted, but with a dark stripe from the proto- 

 thorax to the base of the wings along the upper part of the pleura. Disc of scutdlum 

 darkened, but with a very narrow pale median line ; sides pale yellow-grey. 



Wings with all the long veins pale, but the two cross- veins suffused. 



Legs pale, with the last tarsal joints somewhat darkened. 



Hab. — The Snares. 



Type. — Cambridge Museum. 



Note. — It is just possible that this species is the same as, or near to, the one de- 

 scribed by Hutton as Leria ftdva, but in the absence of any reference to the bristles 

 in his description, and from the shortness of the diagnosis, it is impossible to be sure 

 without reference to the type. 



DRYOMYZIDAE. 



Among the Acalptrates was a pair of a very fine species from Carnley Harbour. 

 The exact position of this species is a matter of some difficulty. The strongly 

 bristled costa and the long " stigma " recall the Hdomyzidae, but there are no 

 vibrissae and the post-vertical bristles are nearly parallel. The form of the head 

 and wings is much like that of some Sciomyzidae, while the legs and body remind 

 one of a Scatophaga. The chaetotaxy and some other considerations have decided 

 me to put it in the Dryomyzidae. The generic name indicates the many relations 

 of the insect. 



