66 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
The only lists of New Zealand Hymenoptera which have 
hitherto appeared are those published in 1843 in Dieffenbach’s 
work ; and in 1874, by Professor Hutton in the “Transactions 
of the New Zealand Institute,” Vol. VI. In the former work 
only six species are mentioned ; in the latter only twenty-three. 
The late Mr. F. Smith, who has described nearly all the Hymen- 
optera known from New Zealand at present, alludes to sixty-eight 
species as known to him at the end of 1877, when he read his last 
paper on the subject (“Trans. Ent, Soc.,” 1878, p. 1-7). He 
does not, however, enumerate them, and I, therefore, thought it 
would be useful to publish as complete a list as I could prepare. 
It brings up the total number to eighty-one species (including 
the very doubtful Ophzon luteus), an absurdly small total, when 
we consider that we have from 3000 to 4000 species of Hymen- 
optera in Britain alone; the Hymenoptera being probably the 
most extensive of all the orders of insects, except, perhaps, the 
Diptera. AsIcan only regard this list as indicating the present 
extent of our ignorance of New Zealand Hymenoptera, I avoid 
-entering into any generalisations whatever, and have confined 
myself to describing five conspicuous forms as new, and have 
refrained from describing any obscure species. I have added the 
descriptions of the tew species described from New Zealand by 
Fabricius and Walker, as their works are not so generally acces- 
sible as those of other writers on New Zealand Hymenoptera.* 
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ANTHOPHILA 
Andrenide. 
1. Leioproctus imitatus. 
Letoproctus imitatus, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B.M.,1., p.9 (1853). 
New Zealand (Churton); Australia —B.M. 
2. Lamprocolletes fulvescens. 
Lamprocolletes fulvescens, Smith, Trans, Ent. Soc., 1876, p. 480, 
Canterbury (Wakefield).—B.M. 
3. Lamprocolletes obscurus. 
Lamprocolletes obscurus, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B.M., 1, p. 11 
(1853). 
New Zealand (Hutton’s list) ; Tasmania—B.M. 
[The New Zealand habitat is a mistake.—ED.] 
4. Dasycolletes hirtipes. 
Dasycolletes hirtipes, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc., 1878, p. 7. 
Otago (Hutton).—B.M. 
* Descriptions have been added of all those species not described in Professor 
Hutton’s catalogue of New Zealand Hymenoptera, 1881, published by the Geological 
Survey Department, Wellington,—ED. 
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