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Venation: Sci ending opposite one-fourth R-y+s, Sco reduced to a point 

 by the downward bending of Sc; Rs long, strongly arcuated at origin, 

 in alignment with R2+S which, in turn, is in alignment with 7^3; r near 

 midlength of R2; r-m reduced, about equal to, or shorter than, m; 

 petiole of cell Mi about two-thirds the cell; basal deflection of Cui near 

 midlength of the cell. 



Abdominal segments light brown, the basal tergite dusted with 

 gray; a small, circular, darker brown median spot on each tergite; 

 seventh segment black; hypopygium light brown. Male hypopygium 

 with the ninth tergite broad at base, narrowed distally, the apex with 

 a broad V-shaped notch. Pleurites comparatively slender, the apex a 

 little. produced; a small, cyhndrical lobe on proximal face at base; outer 

 pleural appendage angularly bent just before midlength, the tip very 

 obtusely rounded and here microscopically spinulose; two small spines 

 immediately before the apex; inner pleural appendage smaller, the 

 proximal face beyond midlength slightly notched. Gonapophyses not 

 developed. Penis-guard long and straight, the apex slightly curved, 

 before the tip the lateral margins of the guard with conspicuous serra- 

 tions. 



Hab. New Zealand (South Island). Ilolotype, d" , West 

 Plains, Otago, November 5, 1900. (A. Philpott). 



Gynoplistia cladophora, sp. n. 



General coloration shiny black; antennae of male 16-seg- 

 mented; wings with a faint yellow tinge; cell Sc dark brown; 

 wing-pattern very restricted; abdomen dark reddish brown, 

 shiny; gonapophyses of male hypopygium widely separated, 

 each appearing as a slender curved horn that bears a small 

 lateral spine near midlength. Male. — Length 9 mm.; wing 

 9.2 mm. 



Rostrum black, bearing a conspicuous brush of long, yellow hairs; 

 mouthparts and palpi black. Antennas black, 16-segmented, the for- 

 mula being 2 + 2+10+2; longest flabellation about seven times as 

 long as the segment that bears it; pectination of twelfth segment 

 shorter than the segment; terminal flagellar segment larger than the 

 others. Head rather dull black. 



Pronotum with a grayish yellow pubescence medially, shiny reddish 

 laterally. Mesonotal prtescutum shiny reddish laterally, with a sparse 

 microscopic pubescence, the entire disk occupied by three confluent 

 shiny black stripes; scutal lobes likewise largely shiny black, the 

 remainder brown; scutellum brown; postnotum brown basally, shiny 

 black on the posterior half; lateral .sclerites of postnotum reddish 

 brown. Pleura dark liver-brown, sparsely pubescent, most conspicuous 

 on the mesepisternum. Halteres yellow. Legs with the coxas dark 

 brown; trochanters slightly paler brown; femora brown, the tips dark 

 brown; tibias and tarsi black; legs comparatively short and stout. 



