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X. Notes on new or little-known species of Hyinenoptera, 

 chiefly from New Zealand. By W. F. Kirby, 

 Assistant in the Zoological Department, British 

 Museum. 



[Read April 4th, 1883.] 



I consider the publication of isolated descriptions, un- 

 accompanied by figures, useful in the case of conspicuous 

 species, or species from restricted localities which are 

 not likely to be confounded with any others. In the 

 present paper I describe a few new species, conformably 

 to these simple rules, and take the opportunity to pub- 

 lish remarks on one or two species already known. The 

 types are all in the British Museum. 



ACULEATA. 



FOSSOEES. 



POMPILID^l. 



Priocnemis Huttoni. 



Exp. al. 10 lin. ; long. corp. 6 lin. 



Black ; head and thorax more or less clothed with 

 golden yellow tomentum. Wings golden yellow ; fore 

 wings with the tips slightly clouded, and with a brown, 

 slightly irregular, transverse band at about two-thirds of 

 their length. Antennae entirely black. Abdomen black ; 

 1st segment marked with red on the sides ; 2nd segment 

 red, with a black spot on each side at the base, and 

 two others on the back, at the hinder extremity. Legs 

 red ; coxae, trochanters, base of front femora and extreme 

 base of middle femora, black. 



New Zealand ; collected by Capt. F. W. Hutton. 

 Closely allied to P.fugax, Fabr. (maculipennis, Smith), 

 but apparently distinct. 



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