282 Transactions. 
Genus CHEILOSIA Panz. (1809). 
C. fulvipes n. sp. 
black hair, a transverse median depression connecte y a distinct longi- 
tudinal furrow with apex of ocellar triangle ; the latter cupreous and bordered 
with black; frontal orbits at antennae with a silvery pubescence; lunular 
antennae; distinct central knob black; sides of face sparsely clothed with 
Short hair; facial orbits narrowly silvery pubescent; oral margin pro- 
Proboscis blackish-brown, palpi paler. Occiput purplish-black, depressed, 
posterior orbits narrowly silvery. T 
Thorax and seutellum brilliant cupreous, indistinctly clothed with 
very short hair. Wings somewhat translucent, stigma clouded with tawny ; 
cell Cu, very broad owing to veins Ist A and Cu curving into anal angle and 
cell M respectively; on one wing cross-vein r-m is forked, thus meeting 
vein M,., in two places; halteres rather tawny. Legs purplish-black, 
except apices of femora, tibiae, base of all protarsi, and apex cf posterior 
protarsi, which are tawny. Anterior tarsi somewhat broadened ; posterior 
tibiae slightly and middle tibiae distinctly broadened 
Abdomen rather ovate, shiny purplish-black. 
$. Eyes holoptie for a short distance; front black with some erect 
black hair and a greyish tomentum extending into short: white hair below 
on facial orbits. Antennae black. Face greenish-black, central knob pro- 
nounced, black. : 
Thorax and scutellum rather dull black, with a coppery and purplish 
tinge and clothed with greyish hair. Legs as in 2 but tibiae with distinct 
central dark area; anterior and middle tibiae, particularly the latter, 
greatly broadened except for very narrow basal portion; posterior tibiae 
slightly thickened, their protarsi swollen; anterior protarsi and epitarsi 
broadened somewhat. i 
omen linear, somewhat shiny, almost black with pair of large 
Leia spots one on each side of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments. Genitalia 
rownish. 
9. Length, 6 mm. $. Length, 7 mm. 
Holotype: 9, No. 1259, D. M. 
Allotype: 3, No. 12594, D. M 
abitat.—Otira (RT Harris) ; Mount Rolleston and Arthur's Pass 
(J. W. Campbell). 
C. captalis n. sp. 
9. Eyes bare, dichoptie; front broad, greenish-black, clothed with - 
delicate white hair; a silvery area of hair, seen in some lights, on each orbit 
Opposite antennae, Antennae situated above middle of head, black with 
we 
t 
Ў nnae Wer eye-margin. Proboscis and palpi black, 
Occiput black, depressed, orbits clothed with short silvery hair. 
X and seutellum rather shiny greenish or bluish black, clothed 
s rather translucent, stigma tawny; halteres 
