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Anterior and middle legs brownish, posterior cinereous brown to black; : 
tarsi black; coxae cinereous; anterior protarsi enlarged. 
Abdomen brownish to greyish black, clothed with very weak, short 
bristles; genital appendage much shorter than the abdomen, brown, the 
genitalia brownish-black. 
. As male, but the abdomen conical and terminated by a pair of 
stylets. 
d. Length, 5-5 mm. ©. Length, 4mm 
Holotype: Hutton's collection, Canterbury Museum. 
. Habitat.—Wainuiomata; Otira Gorge (б. V. Hudson) ; Okere. 
H. fossalis n. sp. 
5. Eyes dichoptic, deeply emarginate ; ocellar triangle and front black; | 
a pair of conspicuous ocellar bristles, behind each of which is row of small 
delicate ones; row of bristles on each side of front. Antennae black, - З 
Н. smithii Hutton. 
Empis smithii Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 33, p. 30, 1901. : 
.9. Head lost. Dorsum of thorax brownish-grey, with three pos 
' stripes; chaetotaxy distinct (fig. 57) ; six erect marginal bristles on SU — 
um, three on each side, apical ones convergent; pleurae, metanotum, с. 
ано ата metaplurae bare. Legs tawny and bristly. Wing m 
reous, Inclined to transl ; i at an acute ms 
angle; halteres tawny. са ® вима 50 Ж eee 
Ab in of each — 
ength, 
mm. 
Holotype : Hutton’s collecti 
Habitat.—Ashburton (Smith), ” порна казир. 
