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V. Descriptions of New Species of Australian Hymenoptera, 

 and of a Species of Formica from New Zealand. By 

 Frederick. Smith, Esq., Pres. Ent. Soc. 



[Read June 4th, I860.] 



The only species of ant which I have seen from New Zealand, 

 excepting that described in the present paper, is the Formica (Jtta) 

 antarctica of White, in the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror ; 

 indeed, from inquiries that I have made of Dr. Sinclair and others 

 who have long resided in that country, the Formicidce appear to be 

 insects extremely local or of rare occurrence in New Zealand. 

 The species described in this paper derives its sole interest from 

 the fact of its being the first true Formica that has been dis- 

 covered ; it was also the only species of ant forwarded by a rela- 

 tive, who undertook to collect the Formicidce for me in the 

 neighbourhood of Port Littleton. Amongst the Hymenoptera of 

 Australia, the species of the genus Pompilus, and two of Gorytes, 

 are, perhaps, as remarkable for their beauty and distinctiveness as 

 any species belonging to those extensive genera. I have also 

 added a new species to the rare genus Paragia. The fourteen 

 new species of Australian bees, described in this paper, complete 

 the enumeration of all that I am acquainted with from that country; 

 six of these are in the collection of the British Museum, and for 

 eight I am indebted to the liberality of John Lubbock, Esq. 



Formica advena. 



F. luteo-fusca, scapis antennanim pedibusque pallide testaceis ; 

 corporis pube sericea subtiliori ; squama subovali, supra rotun- 

 data. 



jPemrtYfi'.— Fuscous-yellow, shining, covered with a thin fine 

 cinereous pubescent pile; the flagellum slightly fuscous, with the 

 tip pale ; the anterior portion of the head and the mandibles paler 

 than the vertex ; the mandibles with fine acute teeth ; a central 

 impressed line runs upward from the clypeus to the middle of 

 the vertex, terminating at the anterior ocellus, the ocelli minute, 

 Thorax ovate. Abdomen fuscous, the scale of the peduncle in- 

 crassate, its superior margin rounded. 



Length 2 lines. 



