52 Cameron, Hymneoptera, from Greymouth. 



the apex, the femora sparsely covered with soft pale 

 hair; the spurs pale. Wings fuscous, with a violaceous 

 tinge ; the stigma and nervures blackish, the former 

 fuscous on the lower side ; the second cubital cellule 

 narrowed at the top, being there less in length than 

 the space bounded by the recurrent nervures ; the 

 first recurrent nervure is interstitial ; the second dis- 

 tinctly separated from the second transverse cubital. 

 Abdomen shining, impunctuate ; the apex thickly covered 

 with long black hair. The propleurae at the base are 

 finely indistinctly obliquely striated. 



Comes near to P. laevigata ; but the description given 

 of its metathorax "smooth", the apex of the abdomen with 

 only " a few black hairs," while in the present species it is 

 thickly covered with long black hairs, does not fit the 

 species here described. 



Prosopis INNOCENS, sp. nov. 



Long. 7 mm. $ . 



Comes near to P. agilis Sm., but differs in the 

 shorter second cubical cellule, in the recurrent nervures 

 being completely interstitial, in the pronotum being without 

 any yellow, and the tubercles black, not yellow. 



Head dull, not shining, the front and vertex obscurely 

 punctured ; the clypeus, except the apical margin, yellow, 

 the yellow being produced above it as a wedge-shaped 

 mark, which reaches nearly to the enclosed space below the 

 antennae, its top being irregular, having one side higher 

 than the other. The inner orbits have a yellow line 

 reaching from near the base of the antennae, where it is 

 narrow, becoming gradually dilated, rounded, narrowing 

 again to the bottom, but not so narrowly as at the top. 

 The mandibles black on the lower edge, the upper part 

 yellow ; the teeth piccous and black. Antennae stout, 

 black ; the basal joints of the flagellum brownish beneath ; 



