BY WILLIAM II. ASH.MEAD. 351 



(46) EUCTENOPUS NOVAZEALANDICUS, 11. sp. 



9. — Length 9 mm. Head and thorax castaneous; orbits, face 

 and clypeus, apical third of antennae, except four or five apical 

 joints, and legs, except parts to be noted, all lemon-yellow ; 

 middle and hind coxa? concolorous with thorax, apical third of 

 hind tibiae, their spurs and basal joint of their tarsi fuscous; 

 claws black, thickly pectinate. Wings subfuscous, stigma and 

 veins black. 



Type— No. 4905, U.S.N. M. 



Ilah. —New Zealand (A. Koebele, collector). 



Tribe iv.— Pimplmi. 



Genus A L L o T ii E r o N I a, Aslnnead, n.g. 



This new genus falls in a table of genera next to Theronia, 

 Holmgren, and the recently established genus Xeutheronia, 

 Krieger, but may be at once separated from them by the follow- 

 ing characters : — 



Claws simple, not pectinate; metathorax exareo- 

 lated, but with a strong transverse apical 

 carina, the upper hind angles dentate or 

 tuberculate; hind femora unarmed 4 llotheronia, Ashm., n.g. 



(47) Allotheronia 12-guttata, n.sp. 



(J>. — Length 10-11 mm. In stature and general appearance 

 resembles somewhat Lissopimpla 8-gnttata, Kriechbaumer. 

 Black; antenna;, anterior and hind orbits narrowly, face below 

 antenna?, clypeus, mandibles, except tips, and legs, except middle 

 coxa? and hind coxa? and trochanters, red; two small spots at 

 base of scutellum, a spot on metascutellurn, a dot below insertion 

 of both pairs of wings, a dot above middle and hind coxa?, meta- 

 thoracic tubercles and two dots or small spots at apex of 

 abdominal segments 1 to 6 white. Wings fuscous or subfuscous 

 with a black spot at apex of marginal cell, stigma and veins 

 brown-black or black. Thorax, except a smooth median spot on 

 mesopleura, closely, finely, rugulosely punctate; abdomen smooth, 



