of Ilymenopterous Insects of New Zealand. 



483 



Priocnemis diUr/ens. (PI. IV. fig. 3.) 

 remale.-Length 5i-6 lines. Black, the legs femt- 

 ginous. Head smooth, slightly shining, very minutely 

 ?nd delicately punctured, an impressed line running liom 

 thlnterior ocellus to the insertion of the antenna. ; the 

 W thinly covered with golden pile ; the mandibles 

 ferruginous\eyond the middle, with the apex black. 

 IWx slightly shining; the sides and the metathorax 

 wkh a thin faintly golden pile, frequently obliterated on 



Weta^oilx; .^ings ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



the stio-ma; the nervures pale ferruginous at the hyaline 

 port on o^^ the wings ; the claw-joint o the tarsi black ; 

 the coxffi black. Abdomen smooth and shining, with the 



^^^'S^-liir'SSlen with irregular ferruginous 



stains. 



Three specimens examined. 

 Taken at Peel Forest. 



Priocnemis marginatus. (PI. IV. fig. 2.) 

 Female.-Length 44-61 lines Head and thorax black, 

 abdomen ferruginous. The head clothed with short de- 

 cumbent goldeS pubescence ; a central ovate spot on the 

 chpeus aSd the mandibles ferrugmous,_ the latter black at 

 their apex ; the spot on the clypeus vanes m shape, some- 

 tmes being angular or transverse; the antenn^ black. 

 Thoi-ax clothed with a similar pubescence as the head, 

 biit usually more or less abraded on the disk; the legs 

 fcurous,"ith their coxa, black and covered with a 

 tlhrloldenpile; the claw-joint of the tarsi black ; wmgs 

 Mvo-hyaline, the nervures pale ferruginous ; the apex 

 of the wino-s with a broad dark fuscous border extending 

 to the middle of the marginal cell and crossing both wings 

 but with a hyahne incision at the lower margm of the 

 third discoidal cell. Abdomen smooth and sinning. 



Maie'-Length 4i lines. Only differs in being more 

 slender, the antenna not being convolute ; the spot on the 

 cfypeus obsolete ; the dark margin of tlie wmg not incised ; 

 the fourth and following segments black. 

 Taken on the west coast. South Island. 



crabronid^t:. 



Rhopalum perforator. 

 Female.-Length 4i-6 lines. Black and shining, the 

 legs'^riegated with yellow. Head very closely and finely 



