Art. XIV.—Description of a New Blow-fly from Campbell Island.

By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S.

[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th November, 1903.]

Calliphora cockaynei, sp. nov.

♀. Head and face brownish-black, third joint of antennæ lighter; palpi and tip of proboscis fulvous. Eyes hairy; thorax brownish-black; a fulvous spot on each side behind the eye and another at the base of the wings. Wings tinged with fulvous; the veins dark-brown, but fulvous at their insertion, thus making a double fulvous spot on the side of the thorax. Squamæ grey; abdomen metallic greenish-blue; legs black. Length, 12.5 mm.; wings, 10 mm.

Hab. Campbell Island. Collected by Dr. L. Cockayne, July, 1903.

Described from a single specimen which had been put into formalin.

Allied to C. quadrimaculata, but easily distinguished by the colour of the abdomen.