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L. FLAvo-picTA. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1S7H, p. 4. 



Ferruginous ; the head and thorax spotted with yellow. Head, 

 the orbits of the eyes, the clypeuSj and the mandibles yellow, the 

 latter black at their tips. The mesothorax with two narrow longi- 

 tudinal lines which widen anteriorly into an angnlated shape, the 

 prothorax with two longitudinal stripes at the sides, an oblong broad 

 stripe beneath the wings, and all the coxae above, yellow ; the scutellum, 

 post-scutellum, a minute spot on each side of the metathorax above, 

 another in the middle of its posterior margin, and a broad stripe on 

 its sides, yellow ; the metathorax transversely finely aciculate ; wings 

 hyaline, the stigma ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining. 



Length, 4—5 lines. 



Dunedin. 



The male is smaller, usually 34 lines long, is coloured like the 

 female, but has the face entirely yellow. 



L. ALBO-picTA. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1878, p. 4. 



Male. Ferruginous, with the head black. The head with the 

 orbits of the eyes white ; the mandibles white at their base. Thorax : 

 a central longitudinal black line on the mesothorax, and a narrow 

 interrupted white one on each side of it, which expands anteriorly into 

 a sub-triangular shape ; a large ovate spot beneath the wings, and 

 two or three small ones before it, two being on the sides of the pro- 

 thorax, an oblong spot at the side of the metathorax, and the scutel- 

 lum, white ; the metathorax finely wrinkled transversely ; wings 

 hyaline and brightly iridescent, the stigma and nervures black; the 

 two apical joints of the tarsi black. Abdomen clavate, with the apical 

 joints fuscous. 



Length, 3—4 lines. 



Dunedin. 



The female is not known. The male resembles that of L. flavo- 

 picta, but is certainly a distinct species. 



Family— PEOCTOTRUPID^. 



Latreille. 



Egg parasites ; minute. Body rather long and slender ; antennae 

 eight- to fifteen- jointed, the joints often hairy ; wings covered with 

 minute hairs, and with most of the nervures absent ; maxillary palpi 

 three- to six-jointed; labial palpi usually three-jointed. Abdomen 

 with five to seven segments ; tarsi usually five-jointed, rarely foitr- 

 jointed. 



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