122 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 



coarsely punctured, the apex longitudinally rugulose. Spine 

 of the hypopygium long and recurved. Third abscissa of 

 the radius distinctly longer than the second, second recurrent 

 nervure received just before one-quarter from the base of the 

 third cubital cell. 



Hah. Brisbane (^Ilacher^ ; September. 



Very nearly allied to morio, Westw., but may be distin- 

 guished by the colour of the legs, which are ferruginous in 

 morio, by the great breadth of the scutelluni at the a|)ex, and 

 by the much coarser sculpture of the mesopleurge. D. morio 

 is not uncommon round Sydney and has been taken by 

 Mr. Hacker on Stradbroke Island. 



Eirone suhpetiolata, sp. n. 



S. Niger; mandibulis, antennis, fronte, verfcice, pronoto fascia 

 arcuata, mesonoto, scutello tegulisque pallida ferrugineis ; 

 clj'peo, orbitis internis late, prouoto postscutelloque flavis ; alls 

 hyalinis, venis nigris. 



Long. 8 mm. 



S ' Clypeus slightly convex, truncate at the apex, without 

 a flat triangular area ; the whole head finely punctured. 

 Antennae rather slender, scarcely as long as the thorax and 

 median segment combined, the ajncal joints feebly arcuate 

 beneath. Ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the posterior pair 

 more than twice as far from the eyes as from each other. 

 Pronotum about half as long as the mesonotum ; scutellum 

 broadly rounded at the apex, the whole thorax finely punc- 

 tured. Median segment rounded, very minutely punctured, 

 almost smooth at the base, with short white pubescence on 

 the sides and apex. Abdomen fusiform ; dorsal segments 

 2-4 slightly depressed at the base, first segment very narrow 

 at the base ; the whole abdomen shining, minutel}' punctured, 

 more coarsely on the seventh segment. Hypopygium 

 broadly rounded and ciliated. Third abscissa of the rndius 

 half as long again as the second, first recurrent nervure 

 received just beyond the middle of the second cubital cell, 

 second just beyond one-third from the base of the third 

 cubital cell. 



Hah. Brisbane (^Hacker) ; April. 



Allied to E. rvfodorsata, Turn., from Herberton, but differs 

 in the colour of the head and autennee, in the slenderer 

 antenna?, and in the slenderer first abdominal segment, also 

 in the shorter second abscissa of the radius. 



