??<??« or UttJe-hnown Ti[)uli(]te. 500 



mosal face of each plcurite witli a (lcn<c [)eucil of long 

 yellow bristles, directed caudad and slij^litly mesad. Outer 

 pleural appendage slender, narrow at base, thence dilated 

 into a narrow blade, the apex truncate; inner pleural ap- 

 pendage slender, straight, the apex obtuse (as in hoioesi). 



Hub. New Zealand (South Island). 



Hoi type, (^ , Ben Lomond, Otago, December 30, 19,21 

 (G. Halves). 



GynopUstia luteibasis, sp. ii. 



General coloration (in alcohol) dark brown; antennae 

 15-segmented, the terminal four segments simple ; halteres 

 yellow; legs black, the femoral bases broadly yellow ; bases 

 of posterior metatarsi pale ; wings subhyaliue, the base 

 light yellow, the disk heavily marked with dark brown, this 

 including all of cells C, Sc, Sc^, and Hf^ ; gouapophyses of 

 hypo})ygiuin ai)pearing as stout, gently curved arms. 



Male. — Length about 6 ram. ; wing 6'2 mm. 



Described from an alcoholic specimen. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Autennaj 15-segmented, 

 the formula being 2 + 2 + 7 + 4; antennte dark brown 

 throughout, the longest flabellation being about one-half the 

 length of the flagellum; pectination of ninth flagellar seg- 

 ment nearly twice the segment. Head brown, darker brown 

 medially above. 



Mesouotura brown, the praescutum striped with darker 

 brown ; a patch of setae on the lateral margin of the scutum 

 dorso-cephalad of the wing-root. Pleura dark brown. Hal- 

 teres yellow. Legs with the coxae dark brown,- the fore 

 coxae a little paler; trochanters light yellow ; femora dark 

 brown, the bases broadly light yellow, widest on the fore 

 femora where it includes more than the basal half, narrowest 

 on the posterior femora where a little more than the basal 

 third is included ; remainder of the legs black, except the 

 basal half of the posterior metatarsi which is pale. Wings 

 subhyaliue, the base conspicuously light yellow; a very 

 heavy brown pattern including all of cells (7, all of Sc except 

 the prearcular portion, all of Sci ; conspicuous brown areas 

 in base of cell R, at origin of Rs, scarcely attaining 

 vein M ; a very broad seam at and beyond the cord, nar- 

 rowed posteriorly, the centre of cell \st M., pale ; Ming-apex 

 broadly darkened, this including all of cell M^ and the broad 

 outer ends of all the other distal cells ; brown clouds in 

 the basal half of cell Cu and the broad outer margins of the 

 anal cells ; veins dark brown, yellow in the flavous wing-base. 



