A LIST OF THE HYMENOPTERA OF NEW ZEALAND. TE 
TENTHREDINIDA. 
Selandriine. 
81. Monostegia antipoda, n.s. 
Exp. al. 5 1.; long. corp. 5 lines. 
Deep black, legs more or ‘less testaceous; wings hyaline, 
with piceous nervures ; an oblique shade below the stigma, most 
distinct towards the inner margin. 
New Zealand (Wakefield) —B.M. 
Described from two female examples. There is very little 
character about this species, the only true sawfly which has yet 
been met with in New Zealand ; but I hope to figure it shortly. 
Mr. Smith mistook this for the European 7: adumbrata (King), 
but the latter is a true E7zocampa according to the neuration. 
The neuration of V7. antipoda is as follows :—Forewings with 
two radial and four submarginal cells, the two recurrent nervures 
received by the second and third respectively ; the first enters 
the second cell about the middle, and the second enters the third 
cell a little before the middle ; the dividing nervule of the radial 
cells enters the third submarginal cell before the dividing nervule 
between the third and fourth; lanceolate cell with oblique cross- 
nervule ; hind wings with one inner cell. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
SSO 
ENDOWMENT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.—The Royal So- 
ciety has made a grant of £75 to Prof. T. J. Parker, of Otago 
University, to assist him in researches on the embryology of 
Callorhynchus (Elephant Fish), Hatteria (Tuatara Lizard), and 
Apteryx (Kiwi). Attempts to obtain the ova of the first-named 
have this year been unsuccessful up to the present time ; but we 
understand that Professor Parker intends to proceed north 
shortly in order to obtain a supply of the Tuatara Lizards. The 
chief difficulty in each of the specified subjects will be in obtain- 
ing the material to work upon. 
PLANTS SUITABLE FOR CULTIVATION 1N N.Z.—The above 
is the title ofa pamphlet of about 8 pages, prepared by Mr. J. F. 
Armstrong, of Christchurch, and issued at the Government Print- 
ing Press, Wellington. Its contents consist of a list of plants, 
divided into twelve classes, as follows :—1. Alimentary; 2. Fibre; 
3. Timber; 4. Fodder ; 5. Medicinal; 6. Oil ; 7. Plants for bind- 
ing sand-drifts ; 8. For Basketwork; 9. Dyes; 10. Tanning; 11. 
Hedge Plants ; 12. Miscellaneous. The list is a very complete 
