OF NEW ZEALAND. 107 



cubitals, of whicli the three first are complete, tlie fourth often nearly 

 complete ; the second receives the first recurrent nervure ; the third 

 receives the second, and is generally strongly narrowed towards the 

 radial. 



P. FUGAX. Fabricius, Sijst. Ent., 1775, ji. 350; Syst. Piez., p. 194 

 (Sphex). S. nitida : Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 351 ; Syst. Piez., 

 p. 195. 

 Head and thorax covered with golden tomentum. Antennae 

 porrect, black. Abdomen ferruginous. Wings yellowish, sometimes 

 (especially in the males) with a brown fascia ; the apex sub-hyaline. 

 Legs ferruginous. 

 Length, 62 lines. 

 New Zealand and Australia (?) . 



P. MONACHUs. Smith, Cat. Hymen. Brit. Mus., Pt. III., p. 164 (1855). 



Female. Jet-black ; shining, head and thorax thinly scattered 

 over with black pubescence ; wings smoky-hyaline, splendidly irides- 

 cent; the third submarginal cell elongate, widest at its apex, twice 

 the width of the second cell. 



Length, 6^—9 lines. 



Genus-PEIOCNEMIS. 

 Dahlb. 

 Superior wings with one elongate marginal cell and three sub- 

 marginal cells ; the first recurrent nervure uniting with the second 

 transverso-cubital nervure ; the second recurrent nervure entering the 

 second submarginal cell about one-third from its base ; the legs 

 strongly serrate or spinose, the claws having a tooth beneath more or 

 less developed, in some species as stout as the claws themselves. 



P. coNFORMis. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 482. 



Female. Head and thorax black; abdomen ferruginous. The 

 head covered with short fine golden pubescence, which is most dense 

 and bright on the face ; the apical half of the mandibles ferruginous ; 

 the palpi pale ferruginous ; the antennse black. Thorax covered with 

 short bright-golden pubescence ; the metathorax rounded ; the coxse, 

 trochanters, and two apical joints of the tarsi black ; wings pale fulvo- 

 hyaline, pale fuscous from the stigma to the apex, the cloud crossing 

 both wings ; the nervures ferruginous towards the base and fuscous 

 at the apex of the wings. Abdomen smooth and shining, with the 

 extreme base black. 



Length, 4 lines. 

 8* 



