Fam. Anthomyidæ.

Trichophthicus maculipennis.

I captured a single specimen on a very warm day at Roslyn, February (1909).

Trichophthicus dolosus.

Three specimens were captured at Purakanui during January (1909), and two others at Dunedin in the following month.

Trichophthicus melas.

I captured one specimen during a very sunny day, at Roslyn, November (1908); two more were obtained from Mount Cargill, also during a sunny day in Febrauary (1909).

Trichophthicus limpidus.

Abundant. Found in a swamp at the Nuggets, October (1908), and captured in a swamp behind the sea-beach of Murdering Bay during January and February (1909).

Trichophthicus carbonarius.

Not very common. In October (1908) four specimens were obtained from a swamp at the Nuggets, and only one from among rushes, Purakanui, February (1909).

Trichophthicus ordinatus.

Two specimens were captured in a swamp at the Nuggets, October (1908).

Trichophthicus villosus. (Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxxiv, p. 171.)

Abundant. This fly is recorded from the Auckland Islands, but not from New Zealand, by Captain Hutton. Taken in large numbers from a swampy locality at Purakanui, January (1909).

Limnophora rapax. (Plate XXVIII, fig. 3.)

Common during December (1908) and January (1909) at Roslyn, and on the banks of a stream on Mount Cargill.

Homalomyia canicularis.

A common house-fly, which is introduced.