80 Mr. R. E. Turner on New Species of 



to C. aspasia, 8ni., and the related species C. intrepida, 

 Sm., and C. confector, Sm. 



Genus Hemipepsis, Dahlb. 



Hemipepsis, Dahlb., Hymen. Europ., i, p. 123, 1843. 



I think this is a good genus and distinct from Crypto- 

 cheilns, Panz. After much consideration I disagree with 

 Schulz, who uses Shuckard's name Mygnimia for the 

 genus. This name was published in 1840, and therefore 

 has priority over Hemipepsis. But no species are given 

 in Shuckard's work, and the single character given, the 

 position of the first recurrent nervure, would apply to other 

 species not included in Hemipepsis, such as some species 

 of Cyphononyx, equally well. Thus Shuckard's name 

 should, in common with other names in the same work, 

 be treated as a nomen nudum, and only date from Smith's 

 publication of the name in 1855. There is only one 

 Australian species of Hemipepsis. 



Hemipepsis australasiae, Sm. 



Mygnimia australasiae, Sm., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), 

 xii, p. 259, 1873. 



This seems to me to be the Australian form of the 

 Indo-Malayan H. aureosericeus, Guer. It has a wide 

 range in Australia, especially in the northern half of the 

 continent. 



Hab. Cooktown, Cairns and Mackay, Q. ; Hermanns- 

 burg, Central Austraha ; Fowler's Bay, S.A. 



Family CRABRONIDAE. 



Subfamily AMPULICINAE. 



Ampulex crawshayi, sp. ii. 



?. Viridi-cyanea ; antennis tarsisque nigris; mandibulis ferru- 

 gineis; alls hyalinis, venis nigris, anticis in cellulis radiali, cubitali 

 secundo discoidalique secundo leviter infuscatis; abdomine seg- 

 mentis apicalibiis fortiter compressis. 



Long. 20 mm. 



$. Carina of the clypeus sharply bent downwards near the apex, 

 produced into a short blunt apical tooth. Second joint of the 

 flagellum about equal to the combined length of the third and 



