130 HYMENOPTERA 



aenus-PROCTOTRUPES. 



Antennae long and feathered, twelve-jointed. Anterior wings with 

 the beginning of a cubital cell, and two longitudinal veins on the 

 posterior half. Abdomen spindle-shaped, and very acutely pointed, 

 the terminal segments being tubular in their arrangement. Mandibles 

 without teeth. Anterior tibise Avith a single spur. Valves of the ovi- 

 positor long, exserted. 



P. iNTRUDENs. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1878, p. 5. 



Female. Black, with the legs ferruginous, the apical joints of the 

 tarsi fuscous. The mesothorax smooth and shining, as is also the 

 scutellum ; the metathorax coarsely rugose, and having at its base, in 

 the middle, a deep longitudinal channel, which extends to half its 

 length ; at the commencement of the channel, on each side, a deep 

 fossulet ; the coxse more or less fuscous or black. Abdomen very 

 smooth and shining ; in some examples the apex rufo-piceous. 



Length, 2 1 lines. 



Variety. The scape of the antennae rufo-piceous. In some speci- 

 mens a fine silky down is observable on the mesothorax. 



Canterbury. 



Genus-DIAPRIA. 



Latreille. 



Head horizontal, longer than broad, with the ocelli on the front 

 edge ; antennae long and, filiform, with a projection on the underside; 

 fourteen-jointed in the male, twelve in the female ; wings without 

 veins or stigma ; abdomen long, oval, and pedicelled ; mandibles forci- 

 pate; cells obliterated; a small callous spot, in the place of the stigma. 



D. (?) coccoPHAGA. Maskell, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1879, p. 228, pi. IX., 

 /. 2 to 5. 



Black to the naked eye, but under the microscope the vertex of 

 the head is green, the eyes red, the thorax and abdomen brown with 

 green streaks ; the whole body diapered with spots. The posterior 

 wings are furnished with two minute hooks. The antennae are monir 

 liform, with from twelve to fifteen joints ; elbowed at the third joint, 

 the last three being soldered together. The head is transverse, the 

 eyes facetted, the mandibles forcipate. The tarsi are five-jointed ; the 

 anterior pair of legs have a sharp curved spur, with three joints at the 

 end of the tibiae. 



Christchurch. 



