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tralian species, all very similar in colouration and markings to 

 the New Zealand species. I cannot make out to my satisfac- 

 tion if Dr. Kriechbaumer has described Mr. Kirby's species, 

 nor can I identify with any of them an x\ustralian species in 

 my own collection, this species showing considerable variation. 

 The publication of Dr. Kriechbaumer' s paper only affects the 

 generic name, Mr. Kirby's specific name " semijnmctata" 

 being anterior by six years to the publication of the paper in 

 which the German author described Lissopimpla. The name 

 •of the New Zealand species will therefore be Lissopimpla 

 semipunctata, Kirby. 



Captain Hutton informs me that his belief is that the 

 species has been introduced into New Zealand from Australia. 

 The evidence undoubtedly is that it was rare in New Zealand 

 thirty years ago, while now it is not at all rare. At Grey- 

 mouth the late Mr. Richard Helms took it commonly. It is 

 probably, judging from its long ovipositor, a parasite on some 

 wood-feeding insect. It varies considerably in size, as do 

 other Pimplidce. which feed on wood-feeding insects. 



The genus is, up to now at least, not known outside the 

 Australian zoological region. 



Art. VII. — Notes on some New Zealand Orthoptera. 

 By Captain P. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, UOth August, 



1899.'] 



Lissotrachelus maoricus, Walker, Cat. Dermap. Salt, in 

 Brit. Museum, p. 74 (Scleropterus). 



I found this species not uncommon at Whangarei, among 

 grass. It is related to L. ater of Borneo, but difi'ers not only 

 m specific characters but in others which might be considered 

 as generic. 



The antennae are unicolor and not moniliform ; the third 

 joint of the palpus is clavate ; the ovipositor is straight, and 

 the metatarsus of the hind legs has a pair of apical spines as 

 long as those of the tibia. The fore tibias are without auditory 

 pits, and the lateral lobes of the pronotum are about as deep 

 as long. 



The following are additions to Walker's description : In 

 both the male and the female the elytra are abbreviated, not 

 reaching the end of the abdomen. They have seven longi- 



