I ABT. 5 GENERIC REVISION OF THE FOSSORIAL WASPS PARKER 151 



ij specimen bears the label, " S. Australien, Hermannsburg, Finke 

 I River, v. Leonhardi G." Turner reports the species also from West 

 j Australia, 



BEMBIX LAETA, new species 



Figure 115 



Type (female). — Black: labrum; mandibles, except tips; clypeus, 

 j except pair of black medial spots and pair of very narrow lines at 

 base; lower part of frons connected by vertical line with spot below 

 anterior ocellus; scape below; broad anterior orbits deflected inward 

 from the eye-margin at the vertex; posterior orbits; prothorax, ex- 

 cept narrow line in front of tubercles ; broad lateral lines' and broad 

 unbroken U-shaped discal mark on scutum ; broad fascia on posterior 

 border of scutellum ; fascia on metanotum ; curved fascia on dorsum 

 of propodeum broadly extended on median posterior surface ; lateral 

 angles and sides of propodeum; metapleura; greater part of meso- 

 pleura ; broad fascia on tergite 1, abruptly narrowed and interrupted 

 at dorsal midline; continuous fasciae on tergites 2-4, that on 2 

 inclosing pair of narrow, elliptical, black spots those on three and 

 four biemarginate on anterior border and all three acutely emargi- 

 nate at midline on posterior border ; fascia on fifth tergite narrowed 

 and interrupted at dorsal midline; lateral spots on tergite 6; lateral 

 spots connected by apical lines on sternites 2-5; coxae and tro- 

 chanters more or less; femora except spot below and narrow line 

 above; tibiae; and tarsi; yellow. The legs of the U-shaped discal 

 mark on the scutum are decidedly rufous in color. 



The flagellum is slender, black above, except the terminal seg- 

 ment, which is fuscous, and yellowish below, shading to fuscous 

 at the apex. The frons is broad and the inner eye-margins are 

 approximately parallel. The wings are hyaline and the second 

 abscissa of both the radiella and the cubitella is present. The an- 

 terior metatarsus is provided with six spines. The pubescence is 

 light in color, short, and relatively dense on head, thorax, propodeum 

 and base of abdomen. The disk of the second sternite is smooth and 

 shining and bears scattered, coarse punctures. The sixth tergite 

 is narrow and roundly pointed at the apex. 



Length 15 mm. Described from a single femaje bearing the label, 

 " D. O. Afrika, 18, 12, 10, Makonde-Hochld, Grote S. G." 



Type. — In the Zoologisches Museum der Universitat, Berlin. 



BEMBIX BELLATRIX, new species 



Figure 96 



Type (female). — Black: labrum; mandibles, except tips; scape 

 below ; spot between antennae ; broad anterior orbits, shortened above, 



