128 HYMENOPTERA 



Sub-Pamily — Pimpilin^. 

 Abdomen sessile ; oviiiositor long. 



Genus-RHYSSA. 

 Antennae long and setaceous, but shorter than the body ; the first 

 joint broadly notched on the side. Body long, compressed at the 

 extremity in the females, cylindrical or filiform in the males ; the 

 eighth and last segment of the abdomen in the males with a long 

 narrow tongue partly covering the two valves. Mesothorax wrinkled 

 transversely. 



R. ANTiPODUM. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 479, pi. IV., /. 4. 



Female. Dark ferruginous, variegated with yellow. Head : the 

 orbits of the eyes, slightly interrupted opposite the insertion of the 

 antennse, and the clypeus, yellow ; the palpi ruf o-testaceous ; the 

 apical third of the antennae yellowish-white, the apex fuscous. Thorax : 

 the mesothorax transversely rugo-striate ; the lateral margins of the 

 prothorax, the tegulse, and a spot beneath the wings, the scutellum, 

 post-scutellum, and the apical half of the metathorax, yellow; wings 

 hyaline or faintly fulvous, the nervures black ; legs ferruginous ; the 

 anterior and intermediate coxae and trochanters, and the posterior 

 trochanters, yellow. Abdomen smooth and shining ; at the apical 

 margin of the first and second segments a yellow fascia, which emits 

 a short yellow line in the middle ; each of the four following segments 

 has a longitudinal oblong spot in the middle, and also an elongate 

 one laterally ; the sixth has two yellow spots, and the two following 

 segments have their posterior margins yellow, extending to the apical 

 segment also, which has two additional yellow lines beneath the spot. 

 Length, 15 lines. 



Male. Resembles the female, except in the abdomen, which is 

 dark brown, the first segment only having near the apical margin a 

 yellow fascia, which is interrupted in the middle. Length, 15 lines. 

 — F. W. H. 



North Island ; Canterbury ; Southland. 



Genns-LISSONOTA. 

 Gravenhorst. 

 Thorax smooth ; abdomen shining, with smooth segments ; ter- 

 minal ventral segments entire in the female; scutellum triangular; 

 areolet obsolete or triangular ; ovipositor long ; antennae as long, or 

 longer than, the body, the first joint swollen and truncate. 



