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fore-shanks armed with a black curved tooth, corresponding with some 

 black tubercles at the base of the fore-feet. Wings colourless, grey 

 at the tips ; wing-ribs ferruginous, veins piceous, black towards the 

 tips. Poisers large, yellow. 



Length, 6 lines. 



New Zealand (Earl). 



S. ANTiPODUs. Schiner, I.e., p. 166 (1868). 



Female. Brownish-red; thorax with golden-yclloAv longitudinal 

 bands, and the same colour on the shoulders and suture. Scutellum, 

 thorax, and sides of breast shining golden yellow ; sides of the breast 

 below the root of the wing with a four-cornered space free from 

 yellow dust. Abdomen shining, tapering towards the end; first seg- 

 ment black on each side of the base ; second, black in front. Geni- 

 talia of female encircled with points. Head blackish; epistome broad, 

 golden yellow, beard yellow ; palpi blackish-brown, with shining black 

 hairs. Antennae blackish-brown ; the two first joints with strong 

 black bristles ; the third long, flat, naked ; the small style bud-like. 

 Head dusted gold-yellow, black in the middle ; legs rust-yellow ; hips 

 shining white, the upper part of the thighs with black stripes ; tarsi, 

 except metatarsi, blackish-brown. Body naked, bristles on legs black. 

 Wings pale brownish-yellow, veins brown ; second posterior cell very 

 small, the fourth open but narrowed towards the end ; anal cell open. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Probably the same as the last. 



aenus-ITAMUS. 



Loeiv. 



Black-grey species, of medium or somewhat considerable size, with 



more or less expanded reddish-yellow coloration of the tibiae. The 



female ovi23ositor in all the species is of quite extraordinary length. 



The male genitalia brilliant black, swollen out thick. 



This genus is formed from the group of As'ilus cyandrus. 



I. INQUISITOR. Nowicki, I.e., p. 21 (1875). 



Male and Female. Black ; shoulders, lateral margins, and pos- 

 terior angles of thorax, scutellum, and the greater part of the legs 

 reddish-bay ; femora smeared with black below, all the tarsi blackish- 

 brown ; whiskers, except the lower part, front, anteniuE, thorax, and 

 tarsi black ; nearly all the rest of the body with whitish hairs ; circles 

 behind the setas, all the thorax and legs with black hairs ; abdomen 

 with whitish hairs ; wings hyaline, the apex broadly cinereous. 



