26 Cameron, Hymenoptera, from Grey mouth. 



CRYPTINA. 



Mesostenus albo-pictus Sm. 

 Smith, Trans. Entom. Soc, 1876, p. 477, pi. IV. f. i. 

 One ?. A large and handsome species. 



Hemiteles DESTRUCTIVUS, Sp. nov. 



Niger^ pedzbus abdomineque rufo-testaceis,petiolo nigro ; 

 alls hyalijizs, stigmatefusco. ?. Long. 5 mm. ; terebra i mm. 



Head absent. Thorax entirely black, shining ; the 

 pro- and meso-thorax thickly covered with short pale hair, 

 almost impunctate, the lower part of the pro- and 

 meso-pleurse strongly longitudinally striated, except the 

 usual impunctate spot on the apex of the latter ; the 

 part of the metapleurse below the keel obliquely striated, 

 that above it rugose. The median segment rugosely 

 punctured ; the arese all distinctly defined ; the sides with 

 a distinct tooth near the top of the apical part Legs 

 rufo-testaceous ; the trochanters paler ; the hinder coxae 

 black, except at the apex. Wings clear hyaline, the 

 stigma and the nervures paler ; the recurrent nervure is 

 received in the apical third of the cellule, the tegulae pallid- 

 testaceous. Petiole black, finely and closely longitudinally 

 striated ; apical segments of abdomen thickly covered 

 with short pale hair. 



PIMPLIDES. 

 Rhyssa semipunctata. 



The species described by Wx.YsXxhy {Trans. Entom. 

 Soc, 1883, p. 202) cannot be referred to Rhyssa. I am 

 not quite certain to which genus it belongs ; assuredly 

 not to Rhyssa, which inter alia differs in having the 

 mesonotum transversely striolated. 



Compared with Pimpla the face is longer, the eyes 



