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brownish. Legs greenish-black with short greyish vestiture on tibiae and 
tarsi; posterior protarsi swollen ; joints of anterior tarsi broadened and flat. 
Abdo omen shiny greenish- -black, sparsely clothed with short T 
hair; rather ovate, broadest across posterior margin of 2nd segmen 
о. Length, 6 mm. 
Holotype: No. 1260, D. M. 
Habitat.—Otira (J. R. Harris). 
Genus HELorniLus Meigan (1822). 
H. taruensis n. sp. 
9. Eyes bare; front brownish-black, clothed with delicate blackish- 
brown hair; a rather broad somewhat tawny band across front. Antennae 
iddle ir. 
Oral margin broadly bordered with brownish-black ; — E -black 
and clothed with yellow hair. Proboscis and palpi blackish - 
put rather yellowish, clothed with short yellow hair; the narrow orbits pale 
greyish-yellow below, but blackish-brown above to vertex. 
horax blackish-brown, pleurae dull, with a greyish-yellow tomentum, 
the whole clothed with yellowish to golden hair denser on pleurae and 
па of dorsum; the shiny dorsum with a pair of broad greyish-yellow 
tripes and bordered on each side with this colour. Legs blue-black, 
sparsely clothed with greyish hair; posterior femora broadened, a tooth- 
ike process present below and some short black spines distally ; a tawny 
villi and base of claws white, 
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a dark brown; squamae fringed with long branched reddish hair, the 
alulae with very к hair; cross-vein r-m slightly beyond middle of cell 
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Abdomen she somewhat -— blue-black; 1st segment dull grey 
heres for dark spot on each side at posterior margin; large very indistinct 
areas on each side of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments; the whole clothed 
with. very short yellowish hair, longer along sides; black rather bristle- 
hairs across posterior margin and at angles of 3rd and 4th segments. 
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Holotype : No. 1262 2, D. M. 
Habitat.—Tararuas, 2,600 ft. (J. G. Myers). 
A specimen of what appears to be the male of this species was found 
Eyes бирер, angulated on fron concave transverse ers at 
bdominal ‘segment greyish o А on middle; indistinct paler areas on 
қ на аз іп female. Length, 10 mm. 
| Н. hectori n. зр. 
9. Front dull black with greyish tomentum, clothed with blackish hair. 
Antennae black but with reddish tint and greyish reflection. Face black, 
the central convexity and a broad area at oral margin widening to orbits 
clothed with cinereous Баса. ; sides of face with а few long and delicate 
cinereous hairs; facial orbits and cheeks cinereous, the latter haired and 
