E, otakauensis Miller.

E. otakauensis Miller, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 42, p. 235, pl. 30, figs. 1 to 6, 1909.

In this species the palpi are normal, and not greatly elongated as stated in the original description and shown in the illustration (l.c., fig. 2).

Holotype, ♂: No. 590, D. M.

Allotype, ♀: No. 404, D. M.

E. brouni Hutton.

E. brouni Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 33, p. 30, 1901.

♀. Head cinereous, the face inclined to silvery; front broad orbits converging slightly at antennae; row of delicate orbital bristles on each side of front; distinct pair of ocellar bristles and shorter pair between posterior ocelli. Antennae at middle head-height; cinereous; first and second joints blackish in some lights and bristly; third joint clavate and ending in a stout style not quite half length of third joint. Face short, but broader than front, silvery in some lights. Cheeks and lower part of occiput with long beard of greyish to golden hairs. Proboscis longer than head-height, blackish-brown and cinereous; palpi cinereous to silvery and clothed with greyish hairs. Occiput cinereous to golden, with strong orbital bristles and weaker ones behind.

Thorax cinereous to golden; a pair of blackish stripes on dorsum. Apparently no chaetae except for a pair of bristles on alar angles and a small one above the wing-base; metapleurae with indistinct greyish hairs; propleurae with some delicate greyish hairs. Scutellum with three pair of delicate erect marginal bristles.

Wings comparatively large, rather translucent, tinged with grey; veins rather tawny; R₄ branching almost at right angle from R₅, which descends somewhat from line of R₄₊₅; Sc evanescent at apex; halteres tawny.

Legs cinereous and bristly; posterior tibiae broadened apically, their protarsi somewhat enlarged.

Abdomen cinereous; apical segment triangular, blackish and bristly, particularly at apex.

♀. Length, 5·5 mm.

Holotype: Hutton's collection, Canterbury Museum.

Habitat.—Auckland (Broun).