Some Parasitic Hymenoptera From New Zealand

Dr. R. J. Tillyard, Chief of the Biological Department of the Cawthron Institute for Scientific Research in Nelson, New Zealand, recently sent me a small shipment of parasitic Hymenoptera for indentification. Although the collection consists of only a few specimens, these are of considerable interest on account of our almost complete ignorance of the insect fauna of New Zealand belonging to these families, and I have therefore taken this occasion to report upon them, although Dr. Tillyard has promised more extensive material in the future. All the species mentioned below are apterous or nearly so, distributed in three families, the Ichneumonidm, Braconidm and Belytidm. The types are in the collections of the Cawthror, Institute.