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grey microscopic pubescence; a darker subtenninal ring; hypopygium 

 orange-yellow. Hypopygium with the pleurites short and stout, the 

 caudal-proximal angle produced into a short stout lobe that bears a 

 dense tuft of short bristles ; a yellowish flattened lobe at base of pleurite 

 on proximal face; the two usual pleural appendages are broadly united 

 basally, the outer lobe broad-based, tapering distally, the tip suddenly 

 narrowed into a curved point, not blackened or provided with spines; 

 inner lobe broad-based, suddenly narrowed to the slender neck, the 

 head slightly enlarged but unarmed. The two gonapophyses are very 

 conspicuous, taken together appearing lyriform, each about as long as 

 the pleurite, gently curved outwardly, deeply bifid at tip, the arms not 

 divergent, lateral arm twice as long as the straight inner arm and 

 curved strongly laterad. Penis-guard broad-based, tapering suddenly 

 to the apex, much shorter than the gonapophyses. 



Hab. New Zealand. Holotype, cf , exact locality unknown 

 (/. W. Campbell). 



Gynoplistia trispinosa, sp. n. 



General coloration reddish brown, the mesonotal prasscutum 

 more blackened, especially laterally; pleura whitish, the dorso- 

 pleural region narrowly blackened; femora without pale rings; 

 wings subhyaline with a very restricted pattern; abdomen 

 reddish brown; male hypopygium with the outer pleural 

 appendage a paddle-like, blackened blade; gonapophyses on 

 either side with three spines. Male. — Length 14 mm. ; wing 

 13 mm. 



Rostrum reddish; basal segment of palpus reddish, the terminal 

 segments dark brown. Antennae with the scapal segments yellow, the 

 flagellum dark brown with only the base of the first segment a little 

 paler; antennae 21 -segmented, the formula being 2-|-2+14+3; longest 

 flabellation about six times as long as the segment. Head black, the 

 occiput more reddish; a very faint, appressed, gray pubescence. 



Pronotum brown, the scutellum shiny yellow, only slightly infus- 

 cated medially. Mesonotal praescutum shiny brownish black, the 

 stripes entirely confluent, the median stripe tinged with reddish; humeral 

 region reddish brown; remainder of mesonotum shiny reddish brown. 

 Pleura reddish brown with a heavy, microscopic, white pubescence, the 

 dorso-pleural region narrowly blackened; mesosternum more reddish. 

 Halteres brownish yellow, the knobs darker. Legs with the coxa; heavily 

 white pubescent as on the pleura ; trochanters reddish; femora reddish 

 brown, the tips slightly darker; tibiffi brown, the tips narrowly darker; 

 tarsi dark brown. Wings subhyaline; cell Sc and stigma brown; a 

 small, circular, brown spot at origin of Rs; very narrow brown seams 

 along the cord and outer end of cell 1st Mo; wing-tip in cells R3, R5 and 

 if 1 very faintly clouded with brown ; a faint brown seam along vein Cu 

 to the wing-margin; a faint wash near midlength of vein 1st A; veins 



