176 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



attacked larvas with living larvae of P. dinodes found within a 

 few yards of each other, shows that the two are very similar, if 

 not identical. It is of course possible — as Mr. Hudson suggests 

 in a letter to me — that more than one species is attacked, and 

 that the same species may not be selected in the North Island 

 as in the South. 



Underwood, Invercargill, New Zealand. 



A NEW SPECIES OF PSEUDAGENIA FKOM 

 AUSTEALIA. 



By p. Cameeon. 



Pseudagcnia australis, sp. nov. 



Black ; the antennae orange-yellow, the apical two or three joints 

 infuscated above ; a narrow line on the lower inner orbits, commencing 

 opposite the antennae, where it is united to a line of similar width, 

 which goes round the sides and apex of the clypeus ; mandibles yel- 

 lowish testaceous from shortly beyond the middle to the teeth. Palpi 

 black, paler at the apices of the joints, densely covered with short 

 white pubescence ; the anterior tibiae are brownish in front ; the four 

 anterior calcaria black, the posterior white, narrowly black at the base; 

 the longer one extends to shortly beyond the middle ; wings clear 

 hyaline ; a narrow brownish, not very distinct, cloud along the trans- 

 verse basal and the transverse median nervures ; there is a cloud in 

 the base of the radial cellule, in the second cubital, and between the 

 recurrent nervures in front. S' • Length, 9 mm. 



Eyes slightly but distinctly converging above ; the ocelli in a 

 triangle, the hinder separated from the eyes by about one-half more 

 than they are from each other. The eyes at the top are separated by 

 about the length of the pedicle and third antennal joint united. Apex 

 of clypeus broadly rounded. Face and clypeus densely covered with 

 silvery pile, the cheeks less densely with long silvery hair. Temples 

 roundly narrowed. There is a narrow interrupted furrow down the 

 front. Pronotum roundly narrowed from the apex to the base ; in the 

 middle it is about two-thirds of the length of the mesonotum. The 

 third abscissa of the radius is as long as the basal two united ; the 

 first recurrent nervure is received shortly beyond the middle, the 

 second near the apex of the basal fourth of the cellule ; the transverse 

 median shortly beyond the transverse basal ; the accessory in the hind 

 wings shortly behind the cubitus. The first abdominal segment is 

 long, becoming gradually wider towards the apex, where it is more 

 than twice the width of the base ; it is distinctly longer than the 

 second segment, which is as wide at the apex as it is long ; the seg- 

 ments in fresh examples are banded with silvery pubescence. Meta- 

 notum shagreened. The apices of the wings are slightly infuscated. 

 The labrum appears to be obscure testaceous. 



