1922.] igj 



marked in black; tlie cilia are pale riisty-oclireous barred with blackish. The 

 hind-wings are greyish-ochreous with a cloudy median line ; the cilia are 

 greyish-ochreoua. 



This species inay be immediately recognised by its very short palpi 

 and predominant black coloration. 



The moth appears in January. 



Hillview, Karori, N.Z. 

 Ma>/ 1922. 



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TWO SAWFLIES NEW TO BRITAIN— 

 SCOLIONEURA TENELLA Klug AND PRISTIPHORA GENICULATARautig. 



BY THE KEY. E. D. MOKICE, M.A., F.Z.S. 



1. Scolioneura tenella Klug { = filiae Kaltenbacb). 



Both sexes of this little Blennocampid appeared in some numbers 

 in my garden at Woking on May 21st last and for several days following. 

 They were flying about a Lime-tree which had been topped during the 

 winter and was just beginning to put out a few young leaves. The d' c? 

 and $ 2 differed so remarkably in colour — the formei' having the 

 abdomen for the most part bright testaceous-red, while that of the $ 

 was entirely black — that at first I could hardly believe them to be con- 

 specific, and in fact felt almost sure that the red-bodied insects could 

 only be specimens of Blennocam^ya aJ^nisY?i\\. (^ = assimiUs Cam.), and 

 the black-bodied ones probably of lilennocampa pusilla KL, though I 

 should not have expected either of those species to visit Lime-trees. 



However, after taking four or five specimens of each and examining 

 them with a hand-lens, I noticed (1) that all the red-bodied specimens 

 were 6 6* and all the black-bodied ones 5 $, and (2) that 

 neither the 6 6 nor the § $ had the wing-venation of the genus 

 Blennocampa as at present defined, the basal nerve in their 

 fore wing being not almost straight but sharply and almost 

 angularly henf, not received on the subcosta close to the origin 

 of the cvibitus but at some little distance before it, and not parallel to 

 the 1st recurrent but converging witli it in the direction of the stigma. 

 These characters, together with the absence of a " closed cell " in the 

 hind wing, showed that all the specimens, 6 6 and $ $ alike, were to 

 be looked for in one or other of Konow's genera Scolioneura and 

 Entodecta. And, after consulting Enslin's and Konow's descriptions of 



* This alone would have made it unlikely that they could be specimeus of affinis, for, though the 

 9 ? of that species are fairly common, its <J i are extremely rare ! 



