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Order Hymenopteua. 



Family Andrenid^e. 



Dasycolletes metallicus. 



Andrena trichopus White, Ms., tab. 7,/. 12. 

 Dasycolletes metallicus, Smith, Gat. Hymen. Lis. I., «. 15 

 ■a. 1 (1853). 

 New Zealand. Type. B.M. 



Family Larbiu^. 



Tachytes nigerkimus. 



Astata nigerrima, Wliite Ms., tab. 7,/. 14. 

 Tachytes nigerrimus, Smith, Cat. Hymeno2->t. Lis. IV., 

 p. 302, n. 26 (1856). 



New Zealand. Type. B.M. 



Family MyrmiciD/E. 



Al'HENOGASTER ANTARCTICA. 



Formica antarctica, WJiite Ms., tab. *l,f. 13. 



Atta antarctica, Smith, Cat. Rymenapt. Lis. VI., ^. 167, 

 n. 21 (1858). 



Aphenogaster antarctica F. Smith, in Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 New Zealand. Type. B.M. 



Family ICHNEUMONlDvE. 

 Mesoleptus MiJLLERi, n. sp. See postca (woodcut), fiff. 2. 



Allied to M. atomator ; head black ; mouth orange ; 

 antennae long, black : thorax black ; abdomen glossy 

 orange tawny, basal two-thirds of first segment black; 

 legs orange tawny ; wings hyaline, with green and rosy 

 reflections ; costal stigma black. 



Christchurch ( Wakefield). 



Parasitic upon Cacoecia gallicokns. 



Order Diptera. 



Family TiPULiDiE. 



TiPULA senex, n. sp. Tab. 1,fi(j. 15. 



Head pale cinereous, with basal fourth and a central 

 oval depression testaceous ; prothorax testaceous, with 

 central longitudinal ridge, two lateral longitudinal cin- 

 ereous bands ; mesothorax and metathorax cinereous, with 

 central and lateral longitudinal dusky bands ; abdomen 

 fulvotis ; indications of dusky bands of metathorax con- 

 tinued into basal segments ; wings hyaline white ; costa to 

 mediastinal vein stramineous ; veins testaceous ; costa, a 

 spot at first third of discoidal ceU, two obliquely just 

 beyond second third, a fourth near apex, and a nebulous 



striole at apex of cell, brown ; halteres pale testaceous, legs 

 testaceous ; pectus pinkish cinereous, with several dusky 

 spots. 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



New Zealand {Sinclair). Type. B.M. 



Family Berid.e. 

 (Xylophagi, Wlk.) 



DrPHTSA APICALIS, n. sp. 

 Beris apicalis, White Ms., tab. 7,/ 17. 



Body shining ochreous with black lateral line, trimacu- 

 late on the thorax ; eyes brown, front white, antennae 

 brownish at base, otherwise black; palpi and proboscis 

 ochreous; terminal segments of abdomen more or less 

 dusky, distinctly shot with purple (as also are the other 

 segments, but less evidently) ; legs ochraceous or tawny, 

 tarsi of front pair blackish, of middle and hind pairs pale 

 testaceous ; pectus castaneous ; abdomen below paler than 

 aljove ; wings sordid hyaline white ; a diffused brown spot 

 filling areolet between subcostal and radial veins, and a 

 smaller spot on first cubital vein. 



Expanse, 8 lines. 



New Zealand. Type. B.M. 



Family StratiomiidyE. 



OdONTOMYIA D0RSALI3. Tab. 1,fig. 16. 



Odontomyia dorsalis. Walker, List. Dipt. Ins. III., p. 536 

 (1849). 

 New Zealand (Sinclair). Type. B.M. 



Family Syrphid^e. 



Helophilus trilineatus. 



Eristalis trilineatus, Wied. Auss., Zweif. II, p. 168. 

 Tah. 7,/. 19. 



Syrphus trilineatus. Fab., Syst. Ent.,p. 766, n. 16. 



Port Nicholson (Earl) ; New Zealand (Sinclair, Pekrin, 

 Bank). Type. B.M. 



Family Muscid^e. 



MUSCA L^MICA. 



Musca (Sarcophaga) Ltemica White Ms., tab. 7,/. 18. 

 Musca Laemica, Walker, List. Dipt. Ins. IV., p. 906 

 (1849). 



New Zealand (Sinclai)). Type. B.M. 



