Hyincnoptcra. 175 



toothed, reddish before the middle; the eyes are situated 

 quite close to the base of the mandibles. Pro- and meso- 

 thorax coarsely rugosely punctured, the pleurae more 

 irregularly and less strongly; scutellum shining, bearing a 

 few indistinct punctures. Prothorax considerably narrowed 

 in front, the sides with a slight curve, the pronotum in front 

 transverse, projecting above the elongated prosternum. 

 Metathorax shining, impunctate, except in the centre of the 

 metanotum, which is aciculated and bears three keels, the 

 central reaching a little beyond the middle, the lateral not 

 half its length, the central towards the apex having a few 

 transverse stri^. The apex of the metanotum has not a 

 distinct margin; the median segment impunctate, shining, 

 semi-perpendicular. Abdomen shorter than the thorax, the 

 apical half sparsely covered with white hair; the apex 

 broadly testaceous. Legs moderately stout, pilose; the 

 tibiae incline more or less to fuscous. Lower discoidal cellule 

 completely traced. 



Proctotrupes MACULIPENNIS, sp. nov. 



Fulviis^ nitidiis.fulvo Jiirtus, mesopleuris sternoqiie, nigris; 

 alls flavo hyalinis,fusco bifasciatis. Long. 9 mm. 



Hab. New Zealand, Grey mouth {Helms). 



Clypeus almost transverse, margined ; front carinate, 

 the sides depressed. Propleura^ deeply excavated ; pronotum 

 depressed in the middle, the sides broadly tuberculate ; 

 scutellum raised ; a broad semi-circular furrow at its base ; 

 post scutellum not raised ; a broad and wide depression on 

 on either side of it ; a broad and wide furrow at the base of 

 the metanotum, which on either side, in front of this furrow, 

 projects into a large stout tubercle, and there is a sharper 

 and somewhat smaller tubercle in the centre ; from the 

 tubercles keels run down to the apex of the metanotum. 

 Legs covered with a fulvous pubescence ; the base of the 

 hind cox?e inclining to black. The fuscous cloud in the 



