2 Cameron, Hymenoptera^ fro^n Greyniouth. 



492 ; followed in the same Transactions^ 1878, pp. 1-7, by 

 " Descriptions of New Species of Hymenopterous Insects 

 from New Zealand, collected by Prof. Hutton, at Otago." 

 Mr. W. F. Kirby {Trans. Entom. Soc. 1881, pp. 35-50) con- 

 tinued Mr. Smith's work with " A list of the. Hymen- 

 optera of New Zealand," and, I.e. 1883, pp. 199-202, 

 contributed " Notes on New or little-known Species of 

 Hymenoptera, chiefly from New Zealand." 



In Bull. Soc. Entom. Ital, xvi., 1884, Signor Gribodo 

 described Agenia Brouni \ in Trans. New Zealand Inst.., 

 xvii., pp. 158 and 159, Mr. Colenso described Rhyssa 

 clavula and Lissonota multicolor \ in Manchester Memoirs^ 

 1887-8-9, I described five new species from Greymouth ; 

 in Entom. Mon. Mag., iii (2), p. 275, the Rev. T. A. Marshall 

 described Tanyzonus bolitophilce [ = Betyla fulva Cam.] 

 which, with a Diapria described by Mr. Maskell (Trans. 

 New Zealand Inst., xi., p. 230), the catalogue of Captain 

 Hutton, and the descriptions of Hubertia, &c., by Prof. 

 Forel in C. R. Soc. Entom. Belg, 1890, completes our 

 narrative of the history of the literature of New Zealand 

 Hymenoptera. 



Mr. Kirby in his list enumerated 81 species, from 

 which two may safely be deducted — one Ophion luteus Fab., 

 a common European species recorded by Fabricius, doubt- 

 less in error, one of the native species having been 

 probably mistaken for it ; and Blennocampa adumbrata 

 Klug, the common European slug-worm, described by Mr. 

 Kirby as Monostegia antipoda. This leaves 79 as the 

 total number known as inhabitants of the islands in 1881 ; 

 add thereto five (one species, Priocnemis Pascoei Kirby, 

 was described in error) recorded in Kirby's paper of 1883, 

 Gribodo's Agenia Brouni, Colenso's Rhyssa and Lissonota, 

 my three specimens described in 1888, the two in 1889, 

 and the 34 new species now described give us a total of 

 121 species known from New Zealand. 



