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areuated at its proximal end; basal deflection of Cui about one-third its 
length beyond the fork of M. 
Abdomen broken. 
Hab.—Papua. 
Holotype, female ?, Laloki, New Guinea, November, 1910 
(F. Muir). 
Type in the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Experiment Station. 
Gynoplistia fumipennis, sp. n. 
General coloration black, the thoracic pleura dusted with grey; legs 
black; wings suffused with dark brown; abdomen orange, the terminal two 
segments and the ovipositor black. 
Female. Length, 12.5 mm.; wing, 10.5 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black, the flagellum badly twisted 
in the unique type so the number of segments cannot be accurately ceter- 
mined. Head shiny black. 
Thorax shiny black, the pleura with an appressed microscopic grey 
pubescence that appears like a bloom. Halteres brownish black. Legs with 
the coxae black, dusted with grey; remainder of the legs black. Wings 
with a dark brown suffusion, almost uniform over the entire surface, the 
costal region only being a little darker, pale longitudinal streaks in cells 
R, M, Cul, first A, second A, and along vein M; veins dark brown. Vena- 
tion: r near tip of RZ; petiole of cell M7 very short, about one-half longer 
than m; basal deflection of Cul just beyond midlength of cell first M2. 
Abdomen bright orange, segments eight and nine shiny black. Ovi- 
positor black, the valves elongate. 
Hab.—New South Wales. 
Holotype, female, Blue Mountains, December, 1912. 
Type in the Bishop Museum. 
Gynoplistia helmsi, sp. n. 
General coloration greenish black; abdomen violaceous, the third and 
genital segments reddish; legs black, the femoral bases broadly reddish; 
wings subhyaline, heavily banded with brown; antennae with not more 
than seventeen segments, the basal seven flagellar segments pectinate. 
Female. Length, 8.8 mm.; wing, 8.2 mm. 
Rostrum greenish black; palpi black. Antennae with sixteen or seven- 
teen segments, the formula being 2+2+5-+7 (or 8), black. Head greenish 
black. 
Mesonotum greenish black, shiny. Pleura black, dusted with whitish. 
Halteres yellow. Legs with the coxae black, dusted with white; trochan- 
ters black; femora black with the basal half or less reddish, the tips some- 
what clavate; remainder of the legs black; posterior legs lost. Wings sub- 
