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shining, very minutely and delicately punctured, an impressed line 

 running from the anterior ocellus to the insertion of the antenna ; 

 the front thinly covered with golden pile ; the mandibles ferruginous 

 heyond the middle, with the apex black. Thorax slightly shining ; 

 the sides and the metathorax with a thin faintly-golden pile, fre- 

 quently obliterated on the metathorax. Wings fulvo-hyaline, but 

 fuscous beyond the stigma; the nervures pale ferruginous at the 

 hyaline portion of the wings ; the claw-joints of the tarsi black ; the 

 coxae black. Abdomen smooth and shining, with the extreme apex 

 ferruginous. 



Length, 52—6 lines. 



Var. y8. The abdomen with irregular ferruginous stains. 



Peel Forest, Canterbury. 



P. NiTiDiVENTRis. Smith, Tram. Ent. Soc, 1878, p. 6. 



Female. Jet-black ; the abdomen smooth, shining, and impunctate. 

 The head very finely and closely punctured, with large shallow 

 punctures thinly interspersed ; a little cinereous pubescence on the sides 

 of the face below the antennae ; the anterior margin of the clypeus 

 rounded ; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous. The thorax very 

 delicately punctured ; the legs, with the spines at the apex of the 

 tibiae, black, and the tij)s of the claws of the tarsi rufo-piceous ; the 

 wings hyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen smooth and shining, 

 with the apical segment, except its extreme base, finely rugose and 

 opaque. 



Length, 4i lines. 



Dunedin. 



Family— THTNNlDiE. 

 Thorax arched in front. Maxillary palpi short, joints sub-similar. 

 Legs short, slender, not spinose, nor strongly ciliated. Antennee of 

 both sexes at least as long as the head and thorax together. Body 

 generally naked. Both sexes with wings. 



aenus-EHAGIGASTEE. 

 De Saussure. 

 Male. Abdomen slender, elongated ; apex armed below with a 

 long compressed recurved spine ; the first segment with a compressed 

 tubercle below. Front generally transversely keeled. Clypeus trun- 

 cated at the apex. Labium almost hidden. 



Female. Body slender. Head depressed, with a longitudinal 

 impression on both sides behind the eyes. Thorax flat above ; meta- 



