WarT.—Leaf-mining Insects of New Zealand. 687 
condensed into three rather diffuse transverse bars across wing—one at base, 
one at $ which is somewhat constricted in middle, the third occupying 
terminal one-fourth of wing; the dark scales are more closely packed in 
middle of each bar: cilia light grey, a black cilial line. Hindwings and 
cilia Dent ey. 
lant : PE Wie arguta (not Senecio bellidioides, as previously 
че Also found mining in Е. prenanthoides in the same localities. 
Three further species of Nepticula are under observation—one mining 
in the lacebark (Hoheria populnea), one in the yellow kowhai (Sophora 
tetraptera), and one in a small-leafed ground-plant on Mount Egmont. 
Phytomyza albiceps (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 54, 1923, p. 485). | 
The following note is from Dr. Martin Hering, of Berlin: “ The fly, 
mining in the sow-thistle, which you call P. albiceps Mg. does not belong 
to this species, but is P. atricornis Mg. This insect is mining in Europe 
also in the sow-thistle (Sonchus), and in a great number of other plants. 
It is the most polyphagous leat mine in the world. I have compared 
your specimen with ours, and there is no di erence. P. albiceps Mg., the 
Artenisia leaf-miner never рази. in the mine.’ 
On the Identity of Eurytoma oleariae Maskell. 
By A. B. Gaman, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 
Ento 
Communicated ds ‘David Miller. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 29th October, 1923 ; received by Editor, 
5th November, 1923 ; issued separ ately, 28th August, 1924.] 
IN January, 1922, the Bureau of Entomology of the United States De- 
partment of E Agrioulture received from E. 8. Go чати of the gegen 
nd 
gures (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 21, 1888, p. 255, pl. xi, figs. 1-16) left no 
doubt мра the species had been correctly identified. 
This species is not an Eu a, however, nor even a Chaleidoid, but 
belongs tà үт Serphoidea and to the family else cacao where it agrees 
with the genus Metaclisis Foerster of the tribe Metaclisis 
is said to have the scutellum flat and the antennal pice of the female 
