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with a black spot at lower eye-margin. Proboscis and palpi blackish-brown. 
Occiput depressed, greyish-black, clothed with very delicate greyish hair; 
posterior orbits broad with short grey hairs below, but a single row, 
becoming double on vertex, of erect black hairs above. 
Thorax clothed with greyish to yellow hair with some erect black ones 
on dorsum; pleurae cinereous to greyish-black. orsum velvet-black, 
a pair of cinereous rather narrow stripes tapering to a point before reach- 
ing scutellum; humeri and sides of dorsum cinereous; cinereous area 
posterior to humeri and extending over alar region. Scutellum clothed 
with brownish to golden hair, shiny blackish-brown, apex rather tawny. 
Legs blackish-brown, sparsely clothed with short whitish hairs, which are 
rather bristle-like and blackish on posterior femora; the latter distinctly 
thickened, without a distinct inforior tooth-like process but with stout 
spines and a reddish-yellow spot below distally ; lower side of tarsi, particu- 
larly protarsi, with a few short stout spines. Wings slightly tinged with 
brown, stigma tawny ; cross-vein r-m at middle of cell Ist M,; squamae 
fringed with tawny branched hair; halteres tawny. | 
omen shiny bronze-black, extreme apex tawny; the whole sparsely 
clothed with short grey hair, longer on sides. 
. Length, 9 mm. 
Holotype: No. 1263, D. M. 
Habitat.—Mount Hector, 5,000 ft. (J. G. Myers). 
Genus Ocypramus Macq. (1834). 
O. doralis n. sp. 
short, inserted just above middle line of head; yellow except brown outer ` 
edge of 3rd joint, which is orbicular; arista dark brown. Face, cheeks, 
oral margin, and mouth-parts yellow; face descending almost vertically, 
without tubercle, though rounded at oral margin, which is not projecting. 
. Pleurae, halteres, and legs yellow; onychotarsi dark-brown and upper 
side of femora a rather darker yellow. Dorsum shiny bluish-green, mar- 
gined with yellow, clothed with fine short hair giving a punctured appear- 
ance; scutellum bluish-green at base but otherwise brownish. Wings 
iridescent, clouded at stigma and apex above vein В,+;; vena spuria 
developed vein-like; halteres yellowish. 
. Abdomen narrow, linear, 2nd segment slightly constricted ; shiny blue- 
black, sides of 1st segment yellow ; a pair of tawny spots on 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 
and 5th segments, the last pair darker. Genitalia prominent and tawny. 
5. Length, 6 mm. 
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Holotype: No. 1964, D. M. 
Habitat. —Wellington (J. W. Campbell). 
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