new or Uttle-hiown Tipulidfe. 107 



scarcely darkened distally. Wings with a faint greyish- 

 yellow tinge ; veins pale brown. Venation as discussed 

 under the generic characterization. 



Abdomen pale brownish yellow^ the sternites a little paler. 



Hab. New Zealand (North Island). 



Holotype, $ , Ohakune^ altitude 2060 feet, January 28; 

 1922 [T. R. Harris). 



Gy7ioplistia eluta^ sp. n. 



General coloration grey, the prgescutum with three darker 

 stripes ; antennas with seventeen segments ; wings tinged 

 with pale brown, the pattern very pale and diffuse; pleurites 

 of male hypopygium Avith spinous basal lobes. 



Male, — Length 12*5 ram.; wing 9*2 mm. 



Female. — Length 15*5 mm. ; wing 12 mm. 



Eostrum pale brown, the palpi dark brown. Antenna* 

 with the scape yellow, first flagellar segment light brown ; 

 remainder of the antennse, including all the pectinations^ 

 black ; antennal formula in (^ 2 + 3 + 8 + 4, the pectinations 

 of moderate length; formula in $ 2 + 3 + 6+6. Head 

 brown, the front and orbits pruinose. 



Mesonotum pale brown with three rather indistinct, darker 

 brown stripes ; pseudosutural fovese reddish ; remainder of 

 mesonotum weakly pruinose; the scutal lobes darker. 

 Pleura pruinose. Halteres obscure yellow, the knobs a 

 little darker. Legs with the cox?e yellow, weakly pruinose; 

 trochanters yellow ; femora pale brown, the tips broadly 

 yellow, enclosing a narrow brown subterminal ring ; in the 

 ? the femora are uniformly pale brown ; tibiae and metatarsi 

 pale brown, the terminal tarsal segments black. Wings 

 tinged with pale brown ( (^) or yellowish brown ( ? ) with a 

 very diffuse^ pale brown pattern^ so that at first sight the 

 wings appear almost unicolorous ; stigma oval, brown, 

 sending a paler brown seam along the cord and outer end of 

 cell \st il/g ; a pale brown spot at origin of Rs. Venation : 

 Sci ending beyond the end of Rs^ Sc^ at its tip ; cell 1^^ M2 

 relatively small, the basal deflection of Cui beyond mid- 

 length ; petiole of cell Mi two and one-half to three times m. 



Abdominal tergites brown, the subterminal segments 

 scarcely darkened ; hypopygium a little paler. Male hypo- 

 pygium with conspicuous, blackened^ spinous, basal lobes on 

 the mesal face of pleurites ; outer pleural appendage bifid 

 and blackened at apex, the smooth arm shorter than the 

 denticulate arm ; inner pleural appendage with an obtuse 

 tooth near mid-length of the lower face. 



