neio or litlh-known Tipulldfe. 155 



Hah. New Zealand (Soutli Island). 



hfulotiipe, J, r>>^"" ^r^, Nelson^ altitude 2000ft., Janu- 

 ary 20, 1921 (A. P/rilpo/l). 



Type ill the collection of the Cawthron Institute. 



Gynoplistia campbelli, sp. n. 



General coloration shiny black with conspicuous metallic- 

 blue reflexions; antenna; with fifteen segments ; flagellar 

 segments one to eiglit with long Habellations ; terminal five 

 segments simple ; wings sul)liyaline with an extensive but 

 indistinct cro'^s-bauded pale brown pattern, in addition to 

 larger and darker marks at the origin of Rs and the stigma ; 

 cell Ml lacking. 



Male. — Length Q7 mm. ; -wing 6*4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black, 15-seg- 

 niented ; flagellar segments 1 to 8 M-ith long flabellations ; 

 terminal five segments simple; longest flabellations about 

 two-fifths the length of the flagellum. Head shiny black, 

 witli faint bluish reflexions. 



Mesonotum shiny black with faint bluish reflexions. 

 Pleura coucolorous 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 

 coxa; 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 lyown area at the origin of Rs, not reaching vein M ; 

 stigmal area large, dark brown, continued caudad along the 

 cord to cell 1^^ M^ ; the wing-tip, a band in the cubital cell 

 opposite the level of the cord, a band in cells M, Cu, and 

 1*^ A opposite to the origin of Rs, and cell 2)id 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^j^z short, about equal 

 to r ; r beyond mid-length of the distance between origin of 

 i?3 and the tip of Ri ; cell Mi lacking ; basal deflection 

 of Ciii at one-fourth the length of cell l*'^ iVj. 



Abdomen black with conspicuous metallic-blue reflexions; 

 hypopygium small, obscure chestnut-brown. 



Hub. New Zealand. 



Holotijpe, ^ , exact locality unknown, but probably Black- 

 ball, South Island {J. Jf. Campbell). 



Gijmnoplistia campbelli is dedicated to my friend. Dr. J. W. 

 Campbell, to whom I am indebted for many specimens of 



