54 Mr. F. Smfth's Descriptions of new 



Worker 1 § lines. In general colouring, like the female, but 

 paler, the thorax being pale testaceous like the legs. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



In my own Collection. 



The only species of ants which I have seen from New Zealand 

 are one belonging to the genus Myrmica, one forming the genus 

 Orectognathus, and the species here described belonging to the 

 genus Formica ; it was found near Port Littleton by a relative of 

 mine resident at that place. 



Pompllus raptor. 



P. niger, ahdomine nitido, alls fuscis fasc'id ante apicemflavd. 



Female. — Black ; the anterior wings with a broad yellow fascia 

 near their apical margins. Head with the clypeus transverse, 

 and, as well as the base of the mandibles, sprinkled with a few rigid 

 setae ; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; the face and cheeks 

 covered with silvery pile. The sides of the thorax, the legs and 

 metathorax with a silvery silky reflection ; the posterior margin 

 of the prothorax curved ; the metatliorax somewhat obliquely 

 truncate ; the tibiae exteriorly, and the tarsi, thickly set w'ith short 

 acute spines ; the thorax has a thin fuscous pubescence above, 

 that on the sides and beneath is cinereous ; wings dark fuscous, 

 with an orange-yellow fascia on the anterior pair, the width of the 

 marginal cell, and from thence crossing the wing nearly to its pos- 

 terior border. Abdomen shining, with a bright silvery silky re- 

 flection beneath, and at the posterior lateral angles of the first and 

 second segments. 



Length 9 lines. 



Hab. Australia. (The neighbourhood of Sydney.) 



In my own Collection. 



Pompilus molestu.i. 



P. niger, pube c'lnered sericed vestitus, alts fnscis fasciis duabus 

 Jlavis ; antennis, tibiis tarsisque ferrugine'is. 



Female. — Black, and thinly covered with a silky cinereous pile ; 

 the antennae ferruginous, with three or four of the apical joints 

 black ; the mandibles rufo-piceous at their apex ; the vertex, and 

 the pro- and mesothorax with rufo-fuscous reflection ; the pos- 

 terior margin of the prothorax curved; the tibiae and tarsi dull, 

 ferruginous and sparingly set with short acute spines ; the wings 

 fuscous, with two broad yellow fasciae on the superior pair, their 

 base sub- hyaline ; the posterior wings sub-hyaline, with a fuscous 



