1 922] A lexa nder: Cra ne- Flies from New Zeala nd 233 



the flavous areas. Venation: Sc^ ending beyond the fork of Rs, Sco 

 longer than Sci ; i?2+3 shorter than the deflection of R.i^.,. 



Abdomen with the basal tergite brilhant, dark metallic purple; 

 segments two to six conspicuous orange-yellow with very faint purplish 

 tints on the stemites; no trace of the coppery tints of G. cuprea. 



Ilab. New Zealand. Holotype, Sex?, exact locality unknown 

 (Received from Dr. Campbell). 



Although the unique type of this species is in poor condition, 

 there can be no question of its specific validity. The almost 

 unicolorous yellow wings with the stigma dark brown render 

 the fly a conspicuous one. 



Gynoplistia splendens, sp. n. 



General coloration shiny reddish brown; antennae 19-seg- 

 mented; mesopleura with a patch of golden-yellow hairs; a 

 conspicuous tubercle on mesepimeron; femora fulvous; wings 

 bright yellow, marked with brown, including a broad apical 

 and caudal margin. Female. — Length about 19 mm.; wing 

 15.5 mm. 



Rostrum shiny yellowish brown ; palpi dark brown. Antennee dark 

 brown; antennse 19-segmented, the formula being 2 +2+ 9 +6; the 

 twelfth flagellar segment bears a small lateral tubercle that is shorter 

 than the segment but which might be considered as being a pectination, 

 in which case the formula would be 2+2+10+5; longest flagellar pectina- 

 tion between three and four times as long as the segment. Head shiny 

 brownish red, black between the eyes. 



Pronotum dark reddish brown. Mesonotum shiny reddish brown, 

 the median area of the prasscutum almost black; median sclerite of 

 postnotum paler laterally. Pleura dark chestnut brown with an exten- 

 sive area of short, dense, appressed, golden-yellow hairs on mesepister- 

 num and cephalic margin of mesepimeron; dorsal margin of mesepi- 

 meron, immediately beneath the wing-root, produced laterad and 

 caudad into a stout, conspicuous tubercle. Halteres dark brown, the 

 knobs conspicuously orange-yellow. Legs with the coxs and ' tro- 

 chanters dark chestnut-brown; femora rich fulvous, the tips narrowly 

 blackened; fore tibia; brown, the tips dark brown; mid-tibige reddish 

 brown, near midlength passing into dark brown; posterior tibiae fulvous, 

 concolorous with femora, only the tips narrowly blackened; tarsi black. 

 Wings bright yellow with a rather extensive brown pattern; a large 

 spot at origin of Rs, barely confluent with the proximal end of a con- 

 spicuous brown seam along the distal half of vein M; the stigmal area 

 includes the outer end of cell Sc, base of Sci and a broad seam along the 

 cord and outer end of cell 1st M^; wing-tip broadly and conspicuously 

 infuscated, extending from cell R^ to the end of 2nd A, in cell 1st A 

 continued basad along vein 1st A to beyond one-third the length of the 



