a black spot on vertex, a black ring round occiput and neck; antennæ length of body, black; maxillæ and maxillary appendages fulvous. The prothorax yellow anterior edge; mesothorax, a broad black longitudinal line on mesonotum anterior end, with a yellow narrow and longer line on each side, a black lateral line from junction of anterior wing to the yellow line of the prothorax, with narrow black curved lines at lateral edges, small black spots above the junction of wings, and a small dark triangular spot at posterior edge of mesonotum, two small yellow spots beneath the junction of the wings and two larger yellow spots running diagonally towards intermediate coxæ; metathorax, a large triangular black spot on anterior edge of metanotum, with a small yellow transverse bar at its base (post-scutellum), and a large yellow lateral line diagonal towards posterior coxæ, scutellum mottled with yellow, slightly and sparsely acicular at apical end; sternum black; wings iridiscent finely hairy and ciliated, hairs black springing from minute tubercles; stigma and nervures brownish; areolet small, subquadrate. Legs ferruginous; coxæ yellow above; tarsi joints barbed and slightly hairy, the last joints of tarsi and ungues dark brown: posterior pair, coxæ black below with a ferruginous line; trochanters black; femora with a fusco-testaceous longitudinal line above: anterior pair, trochanters with a brown line; spurs long on the two posterior pairs. Abdomen ferruginous above, yellow below, a line of fuscous spots at lateral margins of the 3rd on to the 6th segments, a narrow darkish line on the lateral edges of the first three segments, and a light ferruginous one below it on the first four segments; extremity yellow, with a minute black style on each side; ovipositor 4 lines long, light ferruginous at apex, sheaths darker, ciliate. Length of body, 4 ½ lines.

Hab. Forests at Norsewood, County of Waipawa; 1884: W.C.