104 HYMENOPTERA 



pubescence ; the anterior margin of the clypeus produced into a central 

 acute tooth. Thorax : a thin silvery pubescence on the sides and 

 beneath; the nietathorax rounded^ obliquely rugulose above, and 

 transversely, more coarsely so behind ; wings f usco-hyaline, darkest at 

 their apical margins. Abdomen smooth and shining, the apical 

 margins of the segments depressed ; the silvery fascia probably 

 obliterated ; beneath, the second, third, and fourth segments have two 

 minute tubercles in the middle near their apical margins ; those on the 

 third segment are most prominent. 



Length, 3 lines. 



New Zealand (British Museum). 



Sub-Eamily — Ntssokin^. 



Genus-aOEYTES. 

 Latreille. 



Antennae of the female in an elongated, obtuse mass, as long as 

 the head and thorax together; antennae of the male filiform, longer 

 than the head and thorax together; all the joints from the third 

 reniform, nearly equal, the tenth entire without a notch. Pul villi 

 small in both sexes. Posterior tibiae without spines. Third cubital 

 cell narrow, the fourth nearly complete. 



G. CARBONARius. Smith, Cat. Hymen. Brit. Mus., Pt. IV., p. 366 

 (1856). 



Female. Jet-black, shining and delicately punctured ; the face, 

 cheeks, sides of the thorax, and base of the abdomen with a thin black 

 pubescence. The anterior tarsi ciliated ; the mesothorax has an 

 abbreviated slightly-impressed line in the centre of its anterior margin, 

 and a similar one on each side; an impressed line on each side over 

 the tegulse ; the suture at the scutellum consute ; the metathorax 

 smooth; the enclosed space at the base of the metathorax with a 

 central abbreviated impressed line at the base. Wings smoky-hyaline, 

 the nervures black. Abdomen : the margins of the segments slightly 

 depressed; beneath, the second segment abruptly produced at the 

 base. 



Length, 4i lines. 



The Male only differs in having the antennae longer, and the 

 abdomen more strongly punctured. 



