Contributions to the Diptera of Nevj Zealand : bi/ A. G. 

 BUTLEK, 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 •' Erebus and Terror " was 

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

 tiiined therein, which appear from Captain Button's List, 

 not to liave Leen published up to the present time. 



GENUS LIMNOBIA. 

 L. fumiimmis, n. sp. 



Tipula (Cylindrotoma) fumipennis, White MS. 



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

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

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

 a deeper black than the general surface of the wings. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



GENUS PANGONIA. 

 P. lerda, n. S2X 



Tabanus lerda. White MS. 



Palpi and antennae yellowish-brown, tlie latter ]ilackish 

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

 above 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 

 tlie third joint of the antenna?. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



