216 Psyche [October-December 



Thus in iinsprayed timber we have the various insect ene- 

 mies, the "wilt" or whatever the disease is, the birds devouring 

 imagoes and the egg parasite. I look for a distinct betterment 

 'in the outlook for 1923. 



SOME PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA FROM NEW ZEA- 

 LAND.' 



By Charles T. Brues. 



Dr. R. J. Tillyard, Chief of the Biological Department of the 

 Cawthron Institute for Scientific' Research in Nelson, New 

 Zealand, recently sent me a small shipment of parasitic Hymenop- 

 tera for indentification. Although the collection consists of 

 only a few specimens, these are of considerable interest on ac- 

 count of our almost complete ignorance of the insect fauna of 

 New Zealand belonging to these families, and I have therefore 

 taken this occasion to report upon them, although Dr. Tillyard 

 has promised more extensive material in the future. 



All the species mentioned below are apterous or nearly so, 

 distributed in three families, the Ichneumonidse, Braconidse 

 and Belytidse. The types are in the collections of the Cawthron 

 Institute. 



Family Braconidae. 

 Metaspathius gen. nov. 



9 Apterous. Head globular; antennae inserted on a frontal 

 prominence, 17-jointed, scape short and thick, pedicel moniliform; 

 first three flagellar joints much elongated; eyes very small, round; 

 ocelli obsolete; head margined behind; clypeus excavated, leaving 

 a rounded mouth opening; palpi simple; slender. Prothorax 

 elongate; mesonotum without furrows; scutellum small, narrow, 

 shield-shaped; propodeum coarsely reticulated. Legs with the 



iContribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Har- 

 vard University, No. 214. 



