new or h'tth-hnown TipuliJfe. 561 



segments, all flagellar segments but the terminal two being 

 pectinate. 



Mesonotum shiny black. Pleura black, gi'ey pruinose. 

 Halteres obscure brownish yelllovv, the knobs daik brown. 

 Legs with the coxib black, greyish pruinose; trochanters 

 black ; remainder of the legs black, the femoral bases 

 broadly yellow, on the fore legs including about the basal 

 half, on the posterior legs including about the basal two- 

 thirds; a broad yellowisli-white ring before the tip of the 

 tibia. Wings hyaline ; cell Sc yellowish ; stigma brown ; 

 a very faint brown clouding along the cord ; wing-tip 

 indistinctly darkened; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc 

 long, Sci ending opposite the fork of Rs, Sc^ at the tip 

 of Sci ; lis long, strongly arcuated at origin ; 1^2+3 short, a 

 little longer tlian r-m ; cell il^i present; petiole of cell M^ 

 about equal to the basal deflection of Cui, the latter at 

 about one-third its length beyond the fork of M. 



Abdomen shiny blacky including the hypopygium. 



Hub. Tasmania. 



Hohtype, S, Mt. Wellington, altitude 1300-2300 feet, 

 January 15-February 6, 1913 (/?. E. Turner). 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Gynoplist'ia dodili, sp, n. 



AntennjB with twenty-four segments, all flagellar segments 

 except the terminal two with long flabeilate branches, basal 

 three branches directed outward ; tarsi l)lack ; wings grey, 

 marked with dark brown ; abdomen black, cross-banded 

 with orange-yellow; a subterminal black ring; hypopygium 

 orange. 



Male. — Length 8"5 ram. ; wing 8"4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi brown. Antennas of the male large 

 with very long flabeilate pectinations; flagellum with twenty- 

 two segments, of which all but the terminal two are pectinate; 

 pectinations of the basal three segments directed outward 

 (as in G. vilis) ; longest pectinations about one-half the 

 length of the entire anienna ; the 21st flagellar segment has 

 a small spur near mid-length ; scape and basal flagellar 

 segments obscure yellow, the terminal segments and all the 

 pectinations black. Head broad, dark brown. 



Mesonotum and pleura brownish yellow without distinct 

 markings. Halteres short, yellow, the knobs dark brown. 

 Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellow ; femora yellow 

 with a broad (1"5 mm.) black subterminal ring, the extreme 

 apex pale ; tibise black, the extreme base pale ; tarsi black. 



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