1922] Some Parasitic Hijmenoptera from New Zealand 219 



petiole. Legs unusually long and slender, the middle and hind 

 coxse large and swollen. 



Type from Aniseed V., New Zealand, March 23, 1922 

 (A. Philpott). 



This species resembles closely certain palsearctic and nearctic 

 species of this highly polymorphic, and no doubt also polyphyletic 

 genus. It will be readily recognized by the black head and pleurae 

 and the very pale legs and mesonotum 



Family Scelionid^ 

 HopJogryon novce-zealandicB sp. nov. 

 ?. Length 1.0. mm. Head, abdomen and antennae, except 

 extreme base of scape black; legs, including coxae, pale fuscous or 

 yellowish brown, the tips of the tarsi blackened; thorax above, 

 and on the pleurae below, dark fuscous or piceous, the pleur8& 

 yellowish brown above; mandibles, except tips, and extreme base 

 of antennal scape yellowish. Entire body clothed with con- 

 spicuous pale hairs. Head, seen from above, twice as wide as 

 thick, the ocelli in a rather low triangle, the lateral ones as far 

 from the eye margin as from one another. Front smooth and 

 polished above, with median line from the ocellus to the base of 

 the antennae; vertically striate below to the base of the mandible; 

 cheeks, temples and occiput shagreened, vertex more strongly so. 

 Antennal seape, funicle and club each of about equal length, the 

 latter 6-jointed; scape slender; pedicel two-thirds as long as the 

 first flagellar joint which is one-half longer than wide; second the 

 same size as the first; third and fourth very small, nioniliform; 

 first club-joint quadrate, the following, except the last, each 

 distinctly transverse. Mesonotum reticulately rugulose; parap- 

 sidal furrows indicated behind, but very indistinct anteriorly; 

 scutellum more finely sculptured, nearly smooth l)ehind; post- 

 cutellar spine short, acute. Lateral teeth of proi)odeum large, 

 blunt at tips. Propleura with a large impression, areolatc by 

 very coarse raised lines; mesopleura deeply impressed below, 

 irregularly horizontally wrinkled above. Wings short, extending 

 to the tip of the second abdominal segment. Abdomen one- 

 half wider than the thorax, almost globose; first segment as long 



