101 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Art. V. — On a Collection of Hyinenoptera made in the 

 Neighbourhood of Wellington by Mr. G. V. Hudson, with 

 Descriptions of Neio Genera and Species. 



By P. Cameron, of Stockport, Cheshire. 



Communicated by Captain F. W. Hutton. 

 [Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th Juhj, 1900.] 



Mr. Hudson, of Wellington, has been good enough to subrpit 

 for my examination a small collection of Hymenoptera, which 

 contains some new and interesting species. As so little is 

 known regarding the distribution of the New Zealand Hymen- 

 optera, I have enumerated all the species. 



EVANIID^]. 



G aster uption pedunculatum, Sm. (see Schletterer). 



BRACONIBvE. 

 Fhogra, gen. nov. 



Wings with two cubital cellules ; the transverse cubital 

 nervure and the cubitus near it obliterated, so that the first 

 cubital cellule is not separated from the second and from the 

 discoidal. Radial cellule wide, reaching to the apex of the 

 wing ; the transverse median nervure is almost interstitial. 

 In the hind wings the radius and cubitus are continued to the 

 end of the wing ; the prsebrachial nervure is interstitial ; the 

 probrachial is widely separated from it. Antennae filiform. 

 Thorax distinctly trilobate ; all the lobes raised and clearly 

 separated. Scutellum roundly convex. Median segment 

 not quite so long as the mesothorax, slightly depressed at the 

 base, and slightly curved upwards ; closely rugose. Abdomen 

 with a short projecting ovipositor ; the petiole is not quite so 

 long as the second segment ; the base behind the tubercles is 

 distinctly narrowed ; from there it becomes gradually, but not 

 much, thickened towards the apex ; the basal half is distinctly 

 grooved on the lower side. Legs slender. 



Allied to Meteorus, from which it differs in having only 

 one transverse cubital nervure, and in the cubital cellules 

 being confluent, through the obliteration of the nervures, with 

 the discoidal at the recurrent nervure. We find an oblitera- 

 tion of the nervures and a consequent fusion of the cellules 

 in Perilitus, &c. ; but in these it is the base of the cubitus 

 which is obliterated, so that the first cubital cellule becomes 

 united with the praediscoidal, while in the present genus 

 these are separated, the cubitus being distinct at the base. 



