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Wings with a faint yellowish tinge; cells Sc, Sci and a seam along vein 

 Cu dark brown; stigma dark brown, continued caudad as a compar- 

 , atively narrow seam along the deflection of i?4-)-5; cord, outer end of 

 cell 1st Mo and most of the longitudinal veins very narrowly and indis- 

 tinctly seamed with pale brown; a quadrangular brown area at origin 

 of Rs, this not attaining Af; wing-tip scarcely darkened; veins dark 

 brown. Venation: Sc} ending just before the end of Rs, Sci about 

 twice Scy, Rs very long, angulated and spurred at origin; T^o+s short, 

 .about equal to or shorter than r-m; r at about two-thirds R2; cell R2 

 very wide at outer margin; inner ends of cells Ri and 1st M2 proximad 

 .of inner end of cell Rr/, petiole of cell M, about two-thirds the cell; 

 basal deflection of Cui just before midlength of cell 1st if 2. 



Abdominal tergites shiny, dark reddish brown, the lateral margins 

 more blackened. Hypopygium with the pleurites short and stout; a 

 short spine on proximal margin at base; distal ends of pleurites pro- 

 duced caudad into a flattened, obtuse lobe that is about one-half the 

 length of the pleural appendage; outer pleural appendage stout, flat- 

 tened, with a conspicuous notch before the tip; inner pleural appendage 

 subequal in length but more slender, gently curved. Gonapophyses 

 very complicated in structure, widely separated from one another, each 

 side appearing as a long, slender, curved horn that bears a small lateral 

 spine near midlength ; the long, curved apex is directed laterad, thence 

 proximad and caudad, almost in a circle. Penis-guard small and slender. 



Hab. New Zealand (South Island). Holotype, <f , Bluff, 

 Otago, November 29, 1914 (A. Philpott). 



Gynoplistia spinicalcar, sp. n. 



General coloration shiny yellowish brown; head coal-black; 

 tibial spurs flattened, the margins microscopically serrulate; 

 wings nearly hyaline, rather heavily marked with brown; a 

 brown spot at the base of cells R and M. Female. — Length 

 about 12 mm.; wing 8.3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brownish black. Antennae with the scapal 

 segments reddish fulvous; flagellum broken. Head shiny coal-black. 



Pronotum black dorso-medially, obscure yellowish laterally. Meso- 

 notum shiny yellowish brown without well-defined markings; scutum 

 shiny yellow. Pleura dark brown, the mesepisternum with an area of 

 appressed, silvery-white pubescence. Halteres yellow, the knobs 

 brown. Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellow; femora yellowish 

 testaceous, the dilated apices conspicuously and extensively blackened; 

 tibiae dark brown, the tips blackened; tarsi black; hind legs missing; 

 tibial spurs flattened, narrowed ba sally, shghtly enlarged distally and 

 with the margin microscopically serrulate. Wings nearly hyaline; cell 

 Sc\, except the outer end, dark brown; a large brown blotch at origin 

 of Rs, extending from R to M ; stigma dark brown, the color continued 

 ..caudad along the cord as a very broad seam that continues across the 



