Acknowledgments

I wish to express my gratitude to Mr. E. S. Gourlay, Entomologist, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, for collecting and handing over to me for description, the new species of doryctid described in this paper, and for his kindness in allowing me access to specimens of Doryctinae in his collections.

To Dr. C. W. F. Muesebeck, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, and to Mr. G. E. J. Nixon, Imperial Institute of Entomology, London, my sincere thanks are due for advice and for literature which they have at all times so freely given.

To the Director of the Cawthron Institute and the Director of the Entomological Research Station, Nelson, New Zealand, for library facilities and access to Inset Collections under their care.