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satisfactory way. It seems therefore that the evidence for 

 assuming that insects do not suffer acute sensations of pain is not 

 by any means complete. We simply do not know and have no 

 reliable means at present of finding out. 



A NEW FOSSORIAL WASP FROM QUEENSLAND. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, BOULDER, COL. 



Zoyphium crassicorne n. sp. 



Male: Length about 5mm.; black, with the legs entirely 

 orange; clypeus, labium and mandibles pale ferruginous, the 

 clypeus with an inconspicuous dusky median patch; antennae pale 

 ferruginous, the flagellum with a dusky shade above; wings hyaline, 

 stigma and outer nervures dark rufous, inner nervures pale fer- 

 ruginous; front, vertex and mesothorax dullish, with extremely 

 close, minute (microscopical) regular punctures; ocelli in a triangle, 

 lateral ocelli not quite as far from eye as diameter of one; antennae 

 placed low down on face, distance from antenna to lower margin 

 of clypeus rather less than distance of antennae apart; antennae 

 clavate, 12-jointed, the scape short and thick, the club very large, 

 compressed apically; face and lower half of front with short glit- 

 tering hair, silvery on front, very pale golden on face; eyes 

 slightly converging above; lower margin of clypeus with a pair of 

 low rounded tubercles, far apart; mandibles with a large rounded 

 tooth on lower margin; tegulae short, pale rufo- testaceous; meta- 

 thorax with short silvery hair at sides, its basal area with a fine medi- 

 an raised line, the apical half of which runs through a broad shining 

 depressed or excavated area; tibiae with apical part spinose; tibial, 

 spurs stout, finely ciliate-denticulate; basal nervure going basad of 

 transversomedial ; marginal cell long, pointed on costa; three sub- 

 marginal cells, the first receiving first recurrent nervure some 

 distance from its end, the second triangular; abdomen shining, 

 very minutely punctured, the apex presenting a broad slightly 

 rounded truncation, with obtuse but salient angles. 



Hab— Brisbane (H. Hacker). Collected May 13, 1912. 

 Queensland Museum 63. The type of Zoyphium is Z. sericeum 

 Kohl, 1893. In Kohl's species the venation differs from that of 

 Zcrassi come, in some rather striking details; the second recurrent 

 nerveur joins the second submarginal cell about the middle (far 



August, 1914. 



