1922] Some Parasitic Hymenoptera from New Zealand 
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medially; parapsidal furrows present; scutellum with two fovese 
at the base. Propodeum densely hairy, without spines; wings 
reaching to the base of the abdomen, strap-shaped. Petiole 
one-half longer than thick; second segment occupying most of the 
abdomen, following very short, the last not elongated nor com- 
pressed. Legs very slender, femora and tibiae clavate. Body 
thinly clothed with erect, long, glistening pale hairs as well 
as with more dense pile on the prothorax and abdominal petiole. 
Type: P. subaptera sp. nov. 
Probetyla subaptera sp. nov. 
$ . Length 2.2 mm. Uniform yellowish brown, the legs 
paler than the body. Head, seen from above, but little wider 
than thick, the eyes set at the anterior corners, about two- 
thirds as long as the temples which are suddenly narrowed be- 
hind; occiput margined; seen from the side, the head is high as 
long, the frontal projection rather small; face nearly horizontal, 
the eyes more than their own length from the base of the man- 
dibles; surface of entire head* smooth. Antennae but slightly 
thickened apically; scape as long as three following joints taken 
together; thicker near the middle, not spinose at apex; pedicel 
twice as long as thick; first flagellar joint longer and more slender, 
three times as long as thick; second to sixth gradually shorter and 
thicker, four following moniliform, each about one-half wider 
than the first flagellar joint. Pronotum short medially, but 
distinctly visible from the above; mesonotum as long as broad, 
with a deep groove next its anterior margin extending from 
tegula to tegula; parapsidal furrows complete, nearly parallel. 
Scutellum with two large, narrowly separated fovese at base. 
Upper surface of propodeum nearly horizontal, convex. Pro- 
and mesopleurse smooth and shining; metapleura finely rugose and 
densely pubescent. Petiole finely longitudinally aciculate; two- 
fifths as wide as the propodeum; gaster one-half wider than the 
thorax and as wide as the head. 
Type from Nelson, New Zealand, December 8, 1921 (A. Phil- 
pott) . 
