new or llulc-Lnown Ti[nili(l;L>. 157 



Hah. Tasmania. 



Jffj/oti/pe, (^ , Maiif^alore, January 25, 1913 {A. White). 

 'I'vpe in the collection of tlic British Museum (Natural 

 History) from tlie AVhite collection, No. 1917. \0^. 



Gynoplistia simplex, sp. u. 



General coloration shiny coal-black without blue or 

 metallic reflexions ; thoracic pleura and coxje silvery 

 pruinose; antenna of male with eleven pectinate segments ; 

 male h\ po[)ygium with a single pleural appendage that is 

 curved, the apex subacute. 



Mule. — Length about 10 mm. ; wing 9*5 mm. 



Kostrura and palpi brownish black. Antennpe with eleven 

 pectinate flagellar segments ; tip of antenna broken, there 

 being a total of fifteen segments present; basal two flagellar 

 segments with long pectinations ; flagellar segments 3 to 11 

 pectinate, the })eetinati(>u of the last segment longer than 

 the two simple segments following; antenna black through- 

 out. Head shiny coal-black. 



Mesonotum shiny black. Pleura heavily silvery pruinose. 

 Halteres daik brown. Legs Avith the cox?e pruinose ; 

 trochanters Idack ; remainder of the legs broken. Wings 

 subhyaline, the apex clouded with brown, this including the 

 outer ends of cells R.^, Ji^, H^, 2nd M^, and most of Mi ; 

 conspicuous dark brown spots at stigma, extending along 

 the cord to r-in ; a large spot at origin of Rs and a less 

 distinct area iu the base of cell R -, remaining veins of the 

 cord indistinctly seamed with brown ; cells C and Sc brown, 

 the latter darker. Venation : ^'cj ending near mid-length of 

 ^•2~z) -^^2+3 a^if^ deflection of /?4+5 subequal or the former 

 shorter ; cell M^ present ; basal deflection of Cwi before or 

 at mid-length of cell 1st J/2. 



Abdomen entirely coal-black, including the hypopygium. 

 Male hypopygium with a single pleural appendage, this 

 broadest basally, thence gently curved and narrowed to the 

 subacute apex. 



Hub. Tasmania. 



Holotijpe, S , -Mangalore, October 19, 1911 (A. White). 



Type in the colleetion of the British Museum (Natural 

 History); from the White collection, No. 1917, 104. 



Cerozodia victoria, sp. n. 



General coloration dark brown, the head and thorax 

 pruinose ; mesouotal pneseutum with three black stripes ; 



