OF NEW ZEALAND. 99 



wings hyaline, beautifully iridescent, their nervures and tegulse fusco- 

 ferruginous. Abdomen shining, and having a little fuscous pubescence 

 at the apex; beneath slightly piccous. 

 Length, 3 lines. 



D. VESTiTUs. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876,^. 485. 



Female. Head and thorax shining-black, the abdomen dark blue. 

 Head : below the antennae covered with white pubescence, above is a 

 little that is fuscous ; on the cheeks and head behind it is cinereous ; 

 ocelli in a curve on the vertex. Thorax : the mesothorax and scu- 

 tellum with fine distant punctures ; the pubescence on the sides of 

 the thorax above fuscous, that beneath griseous ; the femora fringed 

 beneath with the same ; the posterior coxse with a white floccus ; the 

 pubescence on the posterior tibise black exteriorly, interiorly nearly 

 white ; on the basal joint of the posterior tarsi it is yellowish-white 

 within ; the calcarise and claws of the tarsi pale testaceous ; wings 

 hyaline, the nervures dark fuscous. Abdomen with fine shallow 

 punctures, leaving the apical margins of the segments glabrous ; at 

 the apex a little black pubescence. Length, 5i lines. 



Male. Very like the female ; its general pubescence hoary ; on 

 the elypeus, cheeks, and thorax beneath it is white ; wings hyaline, 

 with the nervures testaceous. Length, 4 lines. 



Wellington. 



Genus-PROSOPIS. 



Fabricius. 

 Maxillary palpi six-jointed ; labial palpi four-jointed. Ocelli dis- 

 posed in a triangle on the vertex. Scutellum a little convex, armed. 

 Spines on all the legs simple. Radial cell a little appendiculate ; two 

 cubitals (submarginalj, the first larger than the second, receiving 

 the first recurrent nervure near its junction with the second ; this is 

 a little narrowed towards the radial, receiving the second recurrent 

 ner\Tire. Claws small, unidentate. 



P. viciNA. Sichel, Reise der " Novara," Hymen., p. 143 (1867). 



Male and Female. Medium, black, finely punctated, almost naked ; 

 abdomen bluish ; antennse rufo-piceous below ; the face of the female 

 on both sides, and that of the male altogether, yellow ; wings hyaline. 



Auckland and Tasmania. 



P. AGiLis. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 484. 



Female. Black ; head sub-opaque, very closely and finely 

 punctured ; when viewed in front, nearly quadrate ; a yellow macula 



