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than in most species, that on the tibia nearly twice as long as diameter 
of joint; first tarsal joint is a little more than half as long as tibia (in 
G. speighti and С. migronitida it is almost exactly half as long). The other 
legs and the wings of the type are now lost; according to Alexander's 
description, the wing-markings are somewhat similar to those of G. speighti 
and G. migronitida, but there is a small spot at the base of cell M, and a 
complete fascia across "s mng from base of Rs to hind-margin. * Length 
of body, 5-8 mm.; wing, 6m 
SovTH ln сезоні. (Helms) ; ; type female (fragment) in Berlin- 
Dahlem Museum. 
Gynoplistia fulgens Hutton. 
Gynoplistia fulgens Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 32, p. 47, 1900. 
“Abdomen metallic steel-blue, with purple reflections. Head and 
clear, cà at bases, where they are slightly tinged with yellow ; a rather 
pa wn spot at apex of marginal cell, extending across base of second 
ыа! Only a minute spot at origin of second longitudinal vein. 
iscal cell open. Antennae in the male twenty-jointed, of which 3 to 15 
s branched. Length, $ 13mm.; wing, § 12mm. Female unknown."— 
лев ISLAND: Mount Arthur, 3,600 ft., 6th February, 1898 (Hudson). 
Gynoplistia polita n. sp. (Figs. 88, 171.) 
g. Head shining black, with some black hair; palpi and antennae 
black. Flagellum only thirteen-jointed, joints as in G. clavi vipes. Thorax 
shining black, with scanty pale hair; pleurae with rather large patch of 
fine dense greyish pubescence. Abdomen в shining, dark steel-blue; pubes- 
cence pale; side-pieces of hypopygium ochreous, with dark spot on oute' 
lobes of side-piece larger; parameres less deeply forked, &c. Legs rather 
slender; femora оь apically, but not кру, clubbed. Coxae 
and trochanters shining black; femora ochreous on basal half, gradually 
shading to black apically ; tibiae dark brown ; tarsi black. Wings hyaline, 
tip not at all darkened; a squarish spot over base of Re and a blackish 
fascia from stigma to disc al cell. Halteres uniformly brownish-ochreous. 
Length of body, 5-5 mm. ; wing, 6:5 mm. 
UTH ISLAND: Mount Aurum, 3,000 ft., 17th January, 1920, (G. V. 
Hudson, No. 2178); type male in British Museum. 
Apparently resembles 6. Juden in eoloration, but is much smaller, 
and bae {екы joints in antennae 
Gynoplistia trifasciata n. sp. (Figs. 89, 170.) 
3. Head between the eyes shining dark brown, with violet дааа ; 
ack part rather light ochreous. Palpi dark brown. Scape of antenn 
and vend of first two Agrar joints ochreous, the rest black. Рао 
with only twelve joints, which are mostly about three times as long as 
broad, the last three a little shorter; the first eight bear branches, the 
longest of which are about eight times as long as joint bearing them, that 
on the eighth = five times as long as joint. Thorax entirely brightly 
