1929] 
New Thynnid Wasp from Neio Caledonia 
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A NEW THYNNID WASP FROM NEW CALEDONIA. 
By T. D. A. Cockerell. 
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 
On the occasion of our recent (1928) visit to New Cale- 
donia, my wife and I collected many interesting insects, but 
perhaps none more interesting than a wasp of the family 
Thynnidse now described. 
Eirone superstes n. sp. 
$ . Length about 12 mm. ; slender, variegated with black, 
red and yellow, the surface shining; head rather thick, 
circular seen from in front, the orbits slightly diverging 
below; clypeus, rather broad bands along inner orbits, and 
mandibles except apex, yellow flushed with red, the mand- 
ibles ferruginous subapically, very stout, with a long oblique 
cutting edge, and a small but well defined inner tooth; 
clypeus obtusely angulate in middle, both it and the mand- 
ibles furnished with long glistening yellowish hairs; max- 
illary palpi brown, slender, the three last joints subequal, 
and decidedly elongated; front shining with few scattered 
punctures; ocelli in a high triangle; cheeks with a yellow 
band behind the eyes, ending about two-thirds of the way 
up, but behind this a broad pale red area, which sends a 
pointed projection far up on the occiput; antennae slender, 
long enough to reach metathorax, the scape reddish yellow 
in front, the flagellum black; a pair of large tubercles just 
above and between antennae bright yellow; thorax black 
marked as follows: a yellow marginal band on prothorax 
briefly broken sublaterally ; crescentic yellow mark just in 
front of tegulse; large rather footshaped yellow area, suf- 
fused with red, on mesopleura; two reddish-yellow stripes 
