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new or little-known Tipulide. 15 
Hab. New Zealand (South Island). 
Holotype, 6, Dun Mt., Nelson, altitude 2000 ft., Janu- 
ary 20, 1921 (A. Philpott). 
Type in the collection of the Cawthron Institute. 
Gynoplistia campbelli, sp. n. 
General coloration shiny black with conspicuous metallic- 
blue reflexions; antennze with fifteen segments ; flagellar 
segments one to eight with long flabellations ; terminal five 
segments simple; wings subhyaline with an extensive but 
indistinct cross-banded pale brown pattern, in addition to 
larger and darker marks at the origin of Rs and the stigma ; 
cell M, lacking. 
Male.—Length 67 mm.; wing 64mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black. Antenne black, 15-seg- 
mented ; flagellar segments 1 to 8 with long flabellations ; 
terminal five segments simple; longest flabellations about 
two-fifths the length of the flagellum. Head shiny black, 
with faint bluish reflexions. 
Mesonotum shiny black with faint bluish reflexions. 
Pleura concolorous with the mesonotum with a narrow line 
of appressed grey pubescence extending from the fore coxa 
almost to the wing-root. Halteres broken. Legs with the 
cox shiny black; trochanters dark brown; remainder of 
the legs black, the femoral bases broadly paler. Wings 
subhyaline with an extensive pale brown pattern; a large 
darker brown area at the origin of Rs, not reaching vein M ; 
stigmal area large, dark brown, continued caudad along the 
cord to cell lst M,; the wing-tip, a band in the cubital cell 
opposite the level of the cord, a band in cells M, Cu, and 
lst A opposite to the origin of Rs, and cell 2nd A, with 
the exception of the base, paler brown ; veins dark brown. 
Venation: Sc, ending just before the end of Rs, Sc, indis- 
tinct ; Rs long, angulated at origin ; R,,3 short, about equal 
tor; r beyond mid-length of the distance between origin of 
R, and the tip of R,; cell M, lacking ; basal deflection 
of Cu, at one-fourth the length of cell lst Wj. 
Abdomen black with conspicuous metallic-blue reflexions; 
hypopygium small, obscure chestnut-brown. 
Hab. New Zealand. 
Holotype, & , exact locality unknown, but probably Black- 
ball, South Island (J. W. Campbell). 
Gymnoplistia campbelli is dedicated to my friend, Dr. J. W, 
Campbell, to whom I am indebted for many specimens of 
