520 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 
dark brown; flagellar segments, including the pecti- 
nations, black ; antennae 20-segmented, the formula being 
24241343; the pectination of flagellar segment 15 being 
comparatively small; flagellar segments short with a distinct 
apical neck, the longest pectination being approximately 
one-third the entire flagellum. Head entirely shiny coai- 
black. 
Pronotum shiny yellowish brown. Mesonotal praescutum 
shiny obscure brownish yellow, with three darker brown 
stripes that are ill-defined; remainder of mesonotum shiny, 
obscure yellowish brown. Pleura brownish yellow, the 
mesepimeron and mesosternum between the mid and hind 
coxe with a transverse line of silvery-white pubescence. 
Halteres pale brown, the knobs almost orange. Legs with 
the cox concolorous with the pleura; trochanters obscure 
yellow ; femora bright yellow, the apical third (mid-femur ) 
or half (hind femur) abruptly blackened; tibiz black ; 
posterior tibiz with a clearly defined whitish ring just beyond 
mid-length, this band a little narrower than the black apex ; 
setee on this pale area white ; tibial spurs slender, the apex 
acute, the distal margin weakly spinulose. Wings nearly 
hvaline; cells Se and Sc; entirely dark brown; a conspicuous 
dark brown blotch at origin of /ts, extending to MW; stigmal 
blotch large and compact, continued along the cord ; centre 
of cell Ist Wf, clear; outer end of cell lst M, and basal 
deflection of Cu, narrowly seamed with brown ; an elongate- 
oval paler brown cloud just beyond mid-length of vein 
lst A; wing-tip broadly but faintly infuscated; veins 
brownish black. Venation: AR, perpendicular at origin; 
r near mid-length of R,; basal deflection of Cu, shortly 
before mid-length of cell lst J/,; vei 2nd A very strongly 
sinuous. 
Abdomen shiny dark brown with intense violet and purple 
reflections ; hypopygium, including all but the base of 
sternite 8, obscure reddish yellow. Male hypopygium 
with the pleurites short and stout, their mesal faces densely 
setiferous, the apex of each produced caudad and mesad into 
a rather long, flattened, setiferous blade; two pleural ap- 
pendages, both slender and unspined. Gonapophyses appewr- 
ing as very long, acicular, sinuous rods. 
Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 
Holotype, 3, Ohakune, altitude 2060 feet, December 15, 
1919 (7. R. Harris). 
The type of (Gynoplistia miveicincta was sent to 
Mr. Edwards for his expert opinion; he writes that this 
insect is certainly distinct from speciosa, Edwards, which has 
