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have a more or less pronounced yellow tint; the dark markings vary in 
intensity. The insect is of a stouter build than most other New Zealand 
` species, 
NonrH Istanp: Wellington (G. V. Hudson, No. 29) ; in forest, Porirua, 
9th December, 1920 (G. V. Hudson). SovrH ISLAND : Canterbury (Hutton). 
Gynoplistia tuberculata n. sp. 
broad, quite twice as broad as basal segment. Legs mis 
and trochanters concolorous with thorax). Wings with a strongly marked 
and in a straight line with it; R, and В, +, also straight. Ax with a 
strong double curve. Halteres yellowish. Length of body, 11 mm. ; wing, 
5 mm. 
A single female in H. Loew’s collection in Berlin Zoological Museum, 
without definite data. 
Though superficially very much like G. cuprea, this species is really 
very distinct on account of the remarkable postnotal tubercles, also by the 
rudimentary appendages of the first and ninth antennal joints, and the 
straight branches of the radius. 
Gynoplistia violacea n. sp. (Figs. 86, 168.) 
d. Head shining purplish-black, with some pale pubescence. Palpi 
and antennae black. Flagellum sixteen-jointed, joints for the most part 
as long as joints; branch of thirteenth joint not much longer than joint. 
Thorax shining greenis 
pa А : .. bee: 
violet-black, the front and middle pair grey-dusted; trochanters dark 
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