MILLER.—Diptera Fauna of New Zealand. 463 
E, otakauensis Miller. 
E. otakauensis Miller, Trans, N.Z. Inst, vol. 42, p. 235, pl. 30, 
fi 6, 1909. 
n this species the palpi are normal, and not greatly Songa as stated 
in the original description and shown in the illustration (l.c., fig. 2). 
Holotype, $ : No. 590 . 
Allotype, 2: No. 404, D. М. 
E. brouni Hutton, 
E. brouni Hutton, Trans, N.Z. Inst., vol. 33, p. 30, 1901. 
Head cinereous, the face inclined to silvery; front broad orbits 
posterior ocelli, Antennae at middle ae icd ; cinereous ; first and 
occiput with long beard of greyish to golden hairs. Proboscis longer than 
head-height, blackish-brown and cinereous; palpi cinereous to silvery 
and clothed with greyish hairs. Occiput cinereous to golden, with strong 
orbital bristles and weaker ones behind. 
Thorax cinereous to golden; a pair of blackish stripes on dorsum. 
Apparently no chaetae except for a pair of bristles on alar angles and a 
small one above the wing-base ; metapleurae with indistinct greyish hairs ; 
propleurae with some gom greyish hairs, Scutellum with three pair of 
delicate erect marginal bristles. 
Wings comparatively a rather translucent, tinged with grey; 
veins rather tawny; R, branching almost at right angle from R,, which 
descends somewhat from line of Ry+;; Se evanescent at aper; halteres 
tawny. 
Legs cinereous and bristly ; posterior tibiae broadened apically, their 
protarsi somewhat enlarged. Ex 
Abdomen cinereous; apical segment triangular, blackish and bristly, 
particularly at 
9. Length, M m 
Holotype - Hutton’ s collection, Canterbury Museum, 
Habitat —Auckland (Broun). 
Genus EMPIMORPHA Coqu. 
This genus resembles Empis except that the face is hairy. 
E. torrentalis n. sp. | 
5. Head tawny; eyes emarginate, dic hoptic ; front almost vertical, 
Lo in some lights, with row of short black orbital bristles on each side 
65) ; ocellar triangle large, tawny to golden, a pair of large black erect. 
abd divergent ocellar bristles and numerous small ones behind (figs. 65 
and va ; ocelli orange. Antennae conspicuous, inserted about middle head- 
; third joint clavate, fuscous, 
