58 HYMENOPTERA. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — The head, thorax, legs, and basal 

 segment of the abdomen obscure blood-red, the rest of the abdo- 

 men black ; the head, thorax, and base of the segments of the 

 abdomen strongly punctured, the basal segment rugose. 



Hab. S. Australia (Lower Plenty). (Coll. R. Bakewell, Esq.) 



15. iELURUS FERVENS. 



Male. Length 5£ lines. — Black : the head and thorax closely 

 punctured, the metathorax finely so ; the abdomen shining, and 

 covered with fine, very shallow punctures. The head and disk 

 of the thorax with a pale fulvous pubescence, on the sides of the 

 thorax and beneath it is cinereous. The anterior margin of the 

 appendage, beneath which the antennae are inserted, yellow ; the 

 clypeus anteriorly and the mandibles yellow, the latter ferrugi- 

 nous at their apex ; the sides of the head with a long fringe of 

 pale hairs. The anterior and posterior margins of the prothorax 

 yellow, the yellow colour uniting in the middle ; the tegulae and 

 post-scutellum yellow ; wings hyaline, the marginal cell with a 

 slight fuscous cloud; the legs ferruginous, with the coxa? and 

 trochanters black. The apical ventral segment emarginate at the 

 apex, with a central acute spine. 



Hab. S. Australia (Lower Plenty). (Coll. R. Bakewell, Esq.) 



Species of Brazil. 



16. ^Elurus nasutus. Plate III. fig. 7 ? • 



.Elurus nasutus, King, Berl. Abhandl. (1842)43. 1. f. 11 <? , 12 $ . 



Hab. Brazil. 



17- iELURUS CLYPEATUS. 



/Elurus clypeatus, Klug, Berl. Abhandl. (1842) 43. 2 $ . 

 Hab. Brazil. 



Genus 3. ARIPHRON. 

 Ariphron, Erichs. Wiegm. Arch. (1842) p. 264. 



1. Ariphron bicolor. Plate III. fig. 13? . 



Ariphron bicolor, Erichs. Wiegm.Arch. (1842) 266. 239. t. 5. f. 8, 



8a?. 



Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 146. 

 Hab. Tasmania. 



Notwithstanding the remarkable form of this insect, it is very 



