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Hab. New Zealand (South Island). Holotype, d", Old Man 

 Range, Otago, January, 1920 (Geo. Howes). Amphinenrns 

 senex is allied to A . perdecorus Edwards. 



Gynoplistia lyrifera, sp. n. 



Head grey; mesonotal praescutum and scutum shiny 

 brownish black, the lateral margins of the praescutum and the 

 postnotum with a microscopic grey pubescence; scutellum 

 obscure yellow; wings subhyaline with a heavy brown pattern; 

 abdominal tergites bicolorous; gonapophyses of male hypo- 

 pygium lyriform. Male. — Length 11 mm.; wing 10. G mm. 



Rostrum dark, dusted with gray; palpi dark brown. Antennae with 

 the first scapal segment dark brown; remainder of antennae broken. 

 Head light gray . 



Pronotum light grey. Mesonotal praescutum shiny brownish black, 

 more reddish near the suture, the humeral region and lateral margins 

 conspicuously light grey; it is possible but scarcely probable that the 

 specimen may be rubbed and the disk of the praescutum normally dull; 

 scutal lobes shiny brownish black, the caudal lateral margin yellow, the 

 caudal median area gray; scutellum conspicuously obscure yellow with 

 a median spot at the base, the caudal margin with conspicuous setae; 

 postnotum shiny reddish brown with a sparse microscopic grey pubes- 

 cence. Pleura brown with a heavy microscopic grey pubescence, the 

 dorso-pleural membrane and the lateral sclerite of the postnotum 

 brownish black, the latter heavily grey pubescent; mesostemum dark 

 brown laterally, narrowly pale medially. Halteres with the stem obscure 

 brownish yellow, the knobs broken. Legs with the coxae pale brownisli 

 yellow, covered with a heavy whitish microscopic pubescence; tro- 

 chanters obscure yellow; remainder of the legs broken. Wings sub- 

 hyaline, heavily spotted and clouded with brown; cell Sc pale brown 

 on the basal half; a large subquadrate dark brown spot at origin of Rs, 

 not attaining M; stigmal area large,, continued caudad along the cord 

 to r-m. this area including the apices of cells 1st Ri and R and the bases 

 of cells R^ and Rr, ; remainder of cord and outer end of cell 1 st M2 nar- 

 rowly seamed with paler brown; wing-apex broadly pale brown, 

 including the tip of cell Ri, a little less than the outer half of cells R?, 

 and i?5 and all of Ifi except the base which is clear; a pale brown cloud 

 in the end of cell Cui ; an extensive pale brown cloud occupies the basal 

 half of cell Cu and the outer end of cell 1st A above the end of vein 

 2nd A; no darkening at base of cells R or M ; veins dark brown. Vena- 

 tion ; Sci ending about opposite midlength of R2+Z ; -^2+3 and basal deflec- 

 tion of i?4+5 subequal; tip of R\ and r subevanescent, without macro- 

 trichiae; petiole of cell M\ about two-thirds the cell; basal deflection of 

 Cu\ at from two-thirds to three-fourths the length of the cell. 



Abdominal tergites indistinctly bicolorous, the apical half of the 

 segments .shiny black, the basal half reddish brown with a sparse light 



