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Volume 46, 1913
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Fam. Muscidae.

Calliphora laemica.

Five males and six females. Abundant in sunny places all over the island. The specimens were captured while flying in a warm cave, known as the Oven Cave, on the shores of the Green Lake, in the crater, 30th October.

Common in Australia, Polynesia, and New Zealand.

There are also a number of the Muscidae acalyptratae which I am unable to identify at present.

The Nemocera are represented by two species of Culicidae, a Tipulid, and some species of the Mycetophilidae, all of which are so much damaged that identification, beyond the families, is impossible.

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Crntropiiorus Pluxketi Waite