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is narrow, cuspidate, with a sharp point. Ovipositor large, 

 much compressed. 



Locality. — New Zealand only. 



Neonetus variegatus. Plate XIII., figs. 16-16c. 

 Neonetus variegatus, Brunner, Verh. z.-b., Wien, xxxviii., 



p. 300, pi. vii., fig. 27 (1888). 



Antenna very hairy, the first joint longer than broad, 

 the third shorter than the second. Thoracic not a margined 

 at the sides. Legs moderately hairy. Fore and middle fe- 

 mora unarmed below ; hind femora, below, with five or six 

 small spines on the inner edge and eight or nine minute 

 spinelets on the outer edge. Fore and middle tibise, below, 

 with two spines in each row, unarmed above. Hind tibiae 

 grooved above, with twenty to twenty-two small spines 

 in eacli row, rather irregular in size ; the superior pair 

 of apical spurs twice as long as the inferior pair, rather 

 more than half the length of the first joint of the tarsus. 

 First joint of the hind tarsi shorter than the other three 

 together. Subgenital plate of the male rounded at the point, 

 the styles slender, reaching rather beyond the end of the 

 plate. 



Colours. — Above brown, variegated with paler ; below 

 tawny. A dark lateral streak on the thorax and abdomen, 

 passing above the margins of the thoracic lobes, which are 

 pale ; legs banded dark and light. 



Length, 10mm.; pronotum, 3mm.; thorax. 6mm.; abdo- 

 men, 3mm.; ovipositor, 8mm.; fore tibia, 6mm.; hind tibia, 

 12mm.; hind femur, 10mm. Width at mesonotum, 4mm. 



Locality. — Auckland, under the bark of trees ; common. 



Mr. Brunner's description, if it may so be called, is quite 

 insufficient for recognition, so I have taken the commonest 

 species to represent it. 



Neonetus pilosus, sp. nov. Plate XIII. , fig 17. 



Antennae very hairy ; the third joint about as long as the 

 second. Thoracic nota margined. Legs very hairy; fore 

 and middle femora unarmed below ; hind femora, below, with 

 about eight minute spines on each edge. Fore and middle 

 tibige, below, with one spine on the anterior and two on the 

 posterior side. Hind tibias sulcate above, with about twenty- 

 four spines in each row, rather irregular in size ; apical spurs 

 as in N. variegatus. Subgenital plate in the male more 

 pointed than in N. variegat2is, and the keel not extending 

 beyond the bases of the styles. 



Colours. — Above dark reddish-brown ; lower portions of 

 the lobes of the thoracic nota and the legs testaceous; the 

 legs banded with brown. 



