al 
372 Prof. Westwood’s Descriptions of 
articulatis, articulis 8—8 interne acute productis vix 
ramosis. Long. corp. 7 lin. Expans. alar. 12 lin. 
Hab. Nova Hollandia. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonie 
(olim nostr.) 
(G. Cloniophora, Schiner, Novara, Dipt., p. 40.] 
Gynoplistia Wakefieldii. (Pl. XVIIL., fig. 5, and details). 
Elongata gracilis, cinerascens, abdominis apice sub- 
castaneo, capite parvo, antennis mediocribus, nigris, 
maris 16-articulatis, articulo 3tio subtus dente brevi ar- 
mato, 4to ad 13um singulo infra ramo gracili (ramis inter- 
mediis longioribus), instructis ; tribus ultimis inermibus ; 
foemine brevioribus etiam 16-articulatis, articulis 4—11 
serratis. Rostrum breve, palpis rostro parum longi- 
oribus crassis setosis; thorace antice utrinque macula 
parva obscura, dorsoque vittis 4 nigricantibus, mesonoto 
immaculato ; abdomine elongato, maris apice clavato ; 
alis limpidis fusco-guttatis, gutta majori paullo ante 
medium et versus costam ale, fasciaque abbreviata 
obliqua inter medium et apicem ale; guttisque 4—6 in 
area pobrachiali longitudinaliter dispositis ; pedibus graci- 
libus longitudine mediocribus ; rufescenti plus minusve 
tinctis; femoribus ante apicem annulo pallido notatis ; 
abdomine foeminz elongato, oviductu longissimo acutis- 
simo. Long. corp. maris 54 lin., fem. 7} lin. Expans. 
alar. maris 9 lin., foem. 10 lin. 
Hab. In Nova Zealandia (D. Wakefield). In Mus. 
Hopeiano Oxonie, ¢ et 2. 
This insect is closely allied to Gynoplistia puncti- 
penns, Westw., from New Holland, but is at once dis- 
tinguished by the row of small dark dots arranged in a 
longitudinal series in the pobrachial cell of the wing, 
preceded by a dark patch at the origin of the pre- and 
pobrachial cells. From G. subfasciata, White MS., 
Walk., Cat. Dipt., p. 74, which, like G. Wakejfieldii, 
inhabits New Zealand, it is distinguished by wanting 
the ‘two brown bands, which are distinct on the fore 
border, but pale, interrupted, and almost dentate towards 
the hind border.” 
This last species has been formed by Schiner into the 
genus Cloniophora (Novara Dipt., p. 40), founded upon a 
very broken specimen of the female. Walker gives no 
description of the antenne, and Schiner describes that 
