OF NEW ZEALAND. Igl 



Srs-ORDER— TEREBRANTIA. 



Abdomen sessile, in the female armed with a saw or borer. Larvee 

 with six legs and a nnmber of pro-legs. Feed on vegetable sub- 

 stances. 



Family— TJEO CERID^. 



Abdomen of female furnished with a borer ; labium entire ; pro- 

 thorax elongated ; front tibiae with a single spur. 



Genns-DEHECYRTA. 



Smith. 

 Head subglobose, vertex swollen or convex ; eyes lateral, large, 

 ovate ; ocelli prominent, placed in a triangle between the eyes ; 

 antennae setaceous, composed of twenty-three to twenty-six joints, the 

 scape short, curved, slightly thickened towards the apex ; the first 

 joint of the flagellum half the length of the scape, the second as long 

 as the scape, third and four following joints as long as the first, the 

 remaining joints are each in succession shorter than the preceding. 

 Thorax as wide as the head, oblong, the sides parallel ; the prothorax 

 narrowed anteriorly into a short neck ; the mesothorax slightly ele- 

 vated in front ; the scutellum elevated ; the metathorax with a deep 

 incision in the middle ; the anterior wings with one or two marginal 

 and four submarginal cells, the marginal cell, or cells, elongated, with 

 a short appendix at the apex ; the first submarginal cell small, the 

 second oblong, widest at the apex, the third subquadrate, the fourth 

 extending to the apex of the wing ; the second and third cells each 

 receive a recurrent vein a little within their base; legs slender, not 

 compressed ; the four hind tibite bi-spinous at their apex ; ungues with 

 a strong broad tooth at the base. Abdomen cylindrical, about twice 

 the length of the head and thorax ; the ovipositor short, and slightly 

 exserted. 



D. DECEPTUS. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 474, pi. IV., /. 6. 



, Female. Ferruginous; abdomen rufo-fulvous, variegated with yel- 

 lowish-white. Head globose, shining, and with scattered punctures ; 

 a broad yellowish-white line round the orbits of the eyes, slightly 

 interrupted at their vertex ; two lines of the same colour run longi- 

 tudinally over the vertex, and unite with another line that borders its 

 posterior margin; the clypeus and mandibles yellowish, the latter 

 obliquely truncate, and with four black teeth ; the flagellum black, 

 except its basal joint and the curved scape, both of which are ferru- 



