620 NEW FOSSORIAL HYMEXOPTERA, 



elevated between the antennae, broadened and depressed towards 

 the base of the clypeus. Basal area of the median segment very 

 finely obliquely striated, with a median longitudinal sulcus. 

 First abdominal segment distinctly broader at the apex than 

 long; pygidial area with the sides almost parallel, very slightly 

 convergent towards the apex, which is truncate. Petiole of the 

 second cubital cell short; first recurrent nervure received before 

 the middle of the second cubital cell, second at one fifth from the 

 base of the third cubital cell. 



Hah. — Borroloola, Northern Territory; February. 



Type in Victorian National Museum. 



The colour, especially on the head, is probably altered by 

 cyanide, but the reddish-orange colour of the abdomen is seen in 

 several other Australian species of the genus. The shape of the 

 clypeus does not approach any other Australian species. This 

 can hardly be the female of the Northern Territory species C. 

 cncullata Bingh., the disposition of the colour, and the sculpture 

 of the enclosed area, at the base of the median segment, being 

 very different. 



Subfamily Nyssonin^e. 



Sphodrotes punctuosus Kohl. 



Sphodrotes punctuosus Kohl, Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. Wien, iv. 

 p. 189, 1889,<J. 



Hob. — Jindabyne, N.S.W.; 3,000 ft. (Helms). In Australian 

 Museum, two males; Eaglehawk Neck, S.E. Tasmania (Turner), 

 one male. 



The Tasmanian specimen was taken in February, 1913; the 

 Jindabyne specimens in March, 1889. I have not seen the 

 female. 



GORYTES RUFOMIXTUS, sp.n. 



Q. Nigra, clypeo macula utrinque, pronoto, scutello macula 

 utrinque, segmentisque dorsalibus 1-5 fascia lata apicali flavis; 

 mandibulis, antennis dimidio basali, tegulis, mesopleuris antice, 

 scutello in medio, postscutello, segmentis abdominalibus lateribus, 

 segmento septimo, pedibusque sordide ferrugineis; alis hyalinis, 

 venis fusco-ferrugineis. Long. 8*5 mm. 



