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tip pointed and bent. Legs slender, femora conspicuously clubbed on 
apical fourth; coxae and trochanters light ochreous; femora ochreous 
with black clubs; tibiae ochreous at base, gradually shading to black at 
tip; tarsi black. Wings hyaline, with small dark spot in base of cell К 
and three complete dark fasciae, as in figure. Halteres with slender dark 
stem and large black knob. Length of body, 4-5 mm. ; wing, 5:5 mm. 
М№октн Istanp: Wainuiomata, Wellington, 14th December, 1920 (6. V. 
Hudson, No. 327) ; type and one other male in British Museum. | 
This species and 6. clavipes are doubtless closely allied in spite of some 
striking differences. They and G. polita are remarkable for the reduction _ 
in the number of antennal joints, but there can be no question of removing 
them from the genus Gynoplistia. 
Gynoplistia clavipes n. sp. (Figs. 90, 169.) 
times as long as broad, the last three rather shorter; the first eight flagellar 
joints bear branches, of which the longest are about ten times as long as 
joint bearing them ; that on the eighth is about five times as long as joint. 
almost hyaline, with moderately dark-brown markings as i 
n figure. — 
Ax more sinuous than usual. Halteres ochreous, the knob somewhat _ 
darkened. Length of body, 7 mm. ; wing, 6-3 mm. 
NonrH ЇзгАхр: Wellington, 6th February, 1916 (6. V. Hudson, 
No. 984); type male in British Museum. 
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