6 Cameron, Hymenoptera, from Greymouth. 



name of Monostegia antipoda. Monostegia is not a valid 

 genus, being founded on a character which is not constant 

 even in the same species. Thus Eriocampa adumbrata is 

 frequently found with only one median cellule in the hind 

 wings, instead of the normal two. Mr. Helms sends it 

 from Greymouth. 



SIRICID^E. 



XiPHIDRIA DECEPTA. 



Derecyrta deceptiis Sm., Trans. Entom. Soc.^ 1876, p. 

 474, pi. 4, f 6. 



Xiphidria flavopicta Sm., Lc. 1878, p. I. 



As figured by Smith this species is shown of a much 

 too uniform colour ; the eye orbits, the lines on vertex, 

 the face and edge of the pronotum are clear pale yellow ; 

 the mesonotum dark ferruginous, suffused with black ; the 

 basal four segments of the abdomen clear reddish, and the 

 legs bright pale yellow. On the other hand, the thorax 

 above frequently wants the yellow marks found in the 

 type, the scutella, for example, not being differently 

 coloured from the mesonotum, while again the wings are 

 clear, not fulvo-hyaline. I suspect, however, that my 

 three examples are immature, a circumstance which makes 

 wood-feeding insects have the markings and colour less 

 distinct ; although it must be said that the yellow on the 

 head and the rufous colour on the abdomen are bright 

 enough in my two males, the ? being coloured more as in 

 Smith's figure. 



ICHNEUMONID^. 



Ichneumon. 



A. Scutellum largely elevated, oblique, Its top 

 depressed in the middle, the sides rounded; the 

 tubercles largely projecting, much larger than usual, 

 somewhat triangular, but with the apex rounded ; the 

 median segment not tuberculate nor spined. 



