BY ROWLAND E. TURNER. 235 



ovjai'sely pinictured, the punctures elongate, thinly clothed with 

 cinereous pubescence on the sides. Epipygium narrow, deflexed, 

 longitudinally rugulose, rounded at the apex. Black ; the 

 <iQtena8e, mandibles at the apex, mesothorax and median segment, 

 and the apex of the pygidium, fuscous; legs dull ferruginous. 

 Length 11 mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania. 



Specimens from S3'^dney are much smaller, the male being 

 10 mm. in length and the female 7 mm. only. The fuscous parts 

 of the Tasmanian female are bright ferruginous in a Sydney 

 specimen, as is also the prothorax. 



R. ACULEATUS Sauss. 



Rhagiya^ter aculeatus Sauss., Reise d.' Nov. Zool. ii. 1, Hym. 

 p. 11 3, 1867((J). 



Saussure's description is good. The colour varies as to the 

 -extent of the black bands on the abdominal segments, which are 

 sometimes wholly black above and sometimes ferruginous. 



9. Unknown. 



Hah. — Sydney, Mittagong, N.S.W.; Victoria. 



R. ACULEATUS St. ACUTANGULUS, n st. 



(J. Differs from the typical form in having the sides of the 

 prothorax nearl}^ parallel and the anterior angles sharply pro- 

 duced. The abdomen is wholly ferruginous except the apical 

 segment, which is black. Length 11 mm. 



^. Head rectangular, much longer than wide, shining, with a 

 few minute scattered punctures. Sides of the prothorax parallel, 

 a small depression on each side of the prothorax near the posterior 

 margin. Thorax and median segment sparsely and finely punc- 

 tured, median segment as long as the prothorax, twice as broad 

 at the apex as at the base, without a median carina. Abdomen 

 cylindrical, finely and sparsely punctured. Pygidium rounded 

 at the apex Entirely shining castaneous-brown. Length 7 mm. 



Hah. — S. Australia. In British Museum collection. 



