- 
370 Prof. Westwood’s Descriptions of 
alis pallide fuscis, venis, macula parva antica centrali 
alteraque pone medium obliqua nigris; pedibus fuscis, 
femoribus basi pallidis. Long. corp. mas. 6 lin. Expans. 
alar. 11 lin. 
Hab. In Australasia. In Mus. nostr. (nunc in Mus. 
Hopeiano Oxonie). 
Gynoplistia cyanea. 
Westw., in Lond. & Edinb. Phil. Mag., April, 1835, 
p- 280. 
Nigra, abdomine chalybeo purpureoque _ nitenti; 
femoribus tibiisque ad basin minus obscuris; alis 
obscure venosis costa maculisque duabus subcostalibus 
fuscis ; fem. antennis mutilatis. Long. corp. 6 lin. 
Hab. In Nova Hollandia. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonie 
(olim nostr.). 
Obs. A Tipulideis omnibus colore metallico discrepat. 
(Limnophila metallica, Schiner, Novara Dipt. p. 41, 
from Sydney, appears to be very closely allied to this 
species, but the description given by that author does 
not mention the two subcostal brown spots of the wings. | 
GYNOPLISTIA. 
Sectio 2da. Corpus minus gracile. Antenne maris 
paullo crassiores, singulo articulorum 38—14 ramum 
supra emittente; articulo 15mo supra acute producto, 
reliquis simplicibus. Antenne fem. articulis 3—11 
ramum breviorem emittentibus, articulo 12mo sequenti- 
bus crassiori, articulo 17mo. 16mo longiore, ovali. 
Gynoplistia bella. 
Ctenophora bella, Walker, Ent. Mag., u. 470; Westw., 
Lond. & Edinb. Phil. Mag., April, 1835, p. 280 
(G. bella). 
G. variegata, Westw., Zool. Journ. vol. v. No. 20, 
p. 448; plate xxii., figs. 12, 13. 
Nigra; abdomine (nisi apice), alarum femorum tibia- 
rumque basi fulvis; alis pallidis apice fasciisque tribus 
transversis nigris marginem posticum haud attingenti- 
bus, antice et in medio ale lineis duabus nigris longi- 
tudinalibus, una costali, altera centrali conjunctis. 
