THE 



TRANSACTIONS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



FOR THE YEAR 1878. 



I. Descriptions of new species of Hi/menopterous Insects 

 from New Zealand, collected by Prof. HuTTON, 

 at Otago. By Fkederick Smith. 



[Read December otli, 1877.] 



Seventeen new species of Hymenoptera are described 

 in this paper; one belonging to the TenthredinidcB, twelve 

 to the IchneumonidcB, one to the FormicidcB, one to the 

 Pompilida, one to the CrabronidcB, and one to the An- 

 drenidce. As well as I have been able to ascertain, the 

 number of previously -described species is fifty-one, thus 

 bringing the total up to sixty-eight. The collection made 

 by Prof. Hutton consisted of twenty-three species, four 

 of which have been previously described ; two are re- 

 served for future examination. 



TENTHREDINTDiE. 

 Earn. UROCERID^. 



Xip liydria Jlavo-p icta. 



Male. — Length 4 lines. Ferruginous, the head and 

 thorax variegated Avith yellow ; the sixth, seventh and 

 eighth segments of the abdomen black. Antennte black, 

 with the two basal segments ferruginous. The head 

 yellow; a broad ferruginous stripe from the posterior 



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