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as in figure. R, shorter and straighter than usual. Accessory cross-veins 
are present in both wings in cells R, an R,, in different positions in 
the two wings. Halteres pale ochreous, the base of stem dark. Length of 
body, 9 mm. ; wing, 9 mm. 
Sours Istanp: Otira Gorge, December, 1908 (G. V. Hudson, No. 2344) ; 
type male in British Museum. 
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type male (damaged) in British Museum. 
Gynoplistia speighti n. sp. 
9. Head shining black, with some black hair. Palpi black. Scape 
of antennae brown; flagellum black, the first seven joints with basal 
projections, the longest of which are scarcely as long as joints bearing 
hem; all joints scarcely twice as long as broad; joints 8 and 9 simple ; 
terminal joints missing. Thorax shining blackish-brown, ochreous-tinged 
on shoulders, above roots of wings, and on margin of scutellum. Pleurae 
with a moderately large patch of fine, dense whitish pubescence. Abdomen 
shining blue-black; ovipositor yellowish; anal valves slender, nearly 
straight, twice as long as last segment. Legs rather long and slender, 
femora slightly thickened apically ; brownish-ochreous, femora and tibiae 
gradually darkened towards tips, tarsi blackish. Wings with venation and 
markings practically as in G. nigronitida, but Cu,, is a little before middle 
of discal cell, the dark markings are somewhat smaller, and wings rather 
longer in proportion. Halteres with ochreous stem and blackish knob. 
Length of body, 10-5 mm.; wing, 9 mm. 
SourH Istanp: Mount Grey, Canterbury, 24th December, 1916; type 
female in Canterb useum. 
Although it is evidently closely allied to G. nigronitida, I feel sure this 
cannot be the female of that species, on account of its distinctly longer and 
more slender legs, shining head, and whitish pleural pubescence. The 
specimen was among a number lent by Mr. Speight, of the Canterbury 
Museum, to Dr. C. P. Alexander, and through liim to the writer. 
Gynoplistia anthracina Alexander. 
? Gy anthracina Alexander, Insecutor Inscitiae, vol. 8, p. 128, 
Head and thorax entirely shining black, except that pleurae have a 
ite pu nce. Middle ! 
. narrow elongate patch of асај быб white e. egs 
slender, but wlth femora somewhat clubbed; pubescence rather longer 
