656 Transactions. 
Allotype.—9. Length, 14 mm. ; wing, 4 mm. | 
Female differs from male chiefly in sexual characters. Antennae | 
l6-segmented, basal eight flagellar segments with short branches, the 
longest not exceeding segment that bears it; lower face of ninth flagellar 
segment slightly produced. Basal segment of scape sparsely pruinose; 
second segment pale brown; flagellum black throughout. Mesonotal prae- 
scutum buffy, the colour largely concealed by three slightly darker stripes; | 
remaining sclerites of mesonotum more pruinose. Wings greatly atrophied, | 
as indicated by above measurements, being long and slender, strap-like, dark | 
brown with base more yellowish. Venation distorted but recognizable. — 
Tips of femora and tibiae narrowly infuscated; tarsi largely brown. 3 
Abdomen more or less pruinose, caudal margins of segments brighter - 
brown. Ovipositor with valves very long and slender, especially the gently 
upcurved tergal valves. | 
Allotype, 9, Ohakune, Wellington, altitude 2,060 ft. ; 30th September, 1 
1921 (T. R. Harris). T 
Gynoplistia fuscoplumbea Edwards. E 
1923. Gynoplistia fuscoplumbea Edwards, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 54, 
р. 318, pl. 35, fig. 165 (hypopygium). 
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решу : 
A ge 2, Ohakune, Wellington, altitude 2,060 ft. ; 2nd December, 1922 
Taken 7 
Gynoplistia incisa Edwards. 
1923. Gynoplistia incisa Edwards, Trans. N.Z. Inst, vol. 
pp. 318-19, pl. 35, fig. 166 (hypopygium). 
Edwards's type, a male, was from Wellington, collected by Hudson. 
The species occurs in both Islands. 
brownish-ochreous. Scapal segments of antennae ochreous; ' 
two flagellar segments pale basally, apex and branches brownish-h 
ead dark grey, lighter behind antennal bases wer 
а EU us 
annulus of femur paler and less conspicuous. Wings fully developed; 
apex not so heavily infuscated as in male. Oiler with tergal valves 
Jong and slender, especially the gently upeurved tergal valves. — 
Allotype, 2, Ross, Westland: 19th February, 1923 (7. R. Harris). 
