PENRITH HERALD and East Cumberland and Westmorland News. NO. 446 - First Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission Abroad./Price 1D. A NEW INSECT IN NEW ZEALAND. - A curious insect has lately taken up its quarters with us, which I am told is new to the scientific world. It is a black, wasp-like fly, but rather smaller than the English wasp. Its 'habitat', or perhaps I should more correctly say, its nursery, is a nest of clay built in some convenient crevice, and, to the great annoyance of lady housekeepers, the upper folds of heavy window curtains have apparently a peculiar charm for it. Having selected a suitable spot for its operations, it industriously carries thither tiny pellets of clay, which it moistens and plasters over the curtain or crevice, and on that foundationn proceeds to erect a series of separate clay cells, from five to eight in number, the whole nest being from 4in. to 6in. in length, and about the size and shape of a man's middle finger. The cells are not quite closed in, and the little builder sallies forth on a spider-catching expedition. Apparently the issue of the conflict is never doubtful, for some half-dozen spiders of various size and kind are very speedily deposited captive and comatose in each cell. In each cell, too, is there laid a single egg, the young grub from which spends the days of his early infancy in consuming the spiders, which the paternal or maternal care has provided for his sustenance, and which are undiminished in bulk and fulness a month or more from the time of their capture.