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habit of secreting herself in crannies may possibly be connected with her 
instinctive efforts to follow up the subterranean burrows of the Porina 
larva. This, however, does not explain why the female ichneumon-flies 
habitually hibernate in companies of twenty or thirty strong ; but I have 
observed this to be the case so very many times that I have not the 
slightest doubt it is a universal habit with the species. 
Degithina strammeipes Smith. 
This species is parasitic in the caterpillar of Epirrhanthis alectoraria. 
Food-plant of host : Pittosporum. 
Lissonota rubriplagiata Cameron, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 33, p. 106. 
Bred from the larva of the common Borkhausenia scholaea. Food of 
host: Decayed wood. 
Record of a Fish new to New Zealand, by Gilbert Archey. 
Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, 1810. 
1810. Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, IcJith. Nice , p. 347. 
1895. Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 230, 
pi. cxxiii, fig. 417. 
1902. Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, Waite, Pec. Austr. Mus., vol. 4, p. 267. 
In October, 1918, Mr. R. Strahl sent to the Canterbury Museum a fish 
which he had caught a few miles off shore from Kaikoura. The fish was 
sent to Mr. Edgar R. Waite, who identified it as a specimen of the square- 
tail, Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, the first recorded from New Zealand. 
A note of its discovery was published in the local Press in February 
of last year, but so far no record has been made in a scientific publication. 
Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso. After Goode and Bean (Oceanic Ichthyology, pi. cxxiii, 
fig. 417). Reduced. 
The squaretail was first described from a specimen taken near Nice. 
It has since been recorded from other parts of the Mediterranean ; from 
Madeira ; Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts ; and the South Pacific (Lord Howe 
Island and the coasts of New South Wales). It is described as a deep¬ 
water fish which approaches the shore only at spawning-time. Its flesh 
is violently poisonous. 
As the Canterbury Museum specimen was in a rather bad condition 
when received, the species is illustrated here by a photograph of the figure 
in Oceanic Ichthyology . 
The references given above are not the complete synonymy, but indicate 
where complete descriptions of the fish and the full synonymy may be found. 
