136 Mr. O. Thomas on the 



from the posterior margin of tlie head as from each other. 

 Anteiinge much shorter than the head, inserted low down 

 close to the apex of the clypeus. A short, almost obsolete, 

 longitudinal sulcus below the anterior ocellus. Pronotum 

 narrow, depressed, and obliquely sloped; mesonotum narrower 

 than the head, opaque ; scntellum subopaque, with a trans- 

 verse groove at the liase. Median segment almost as broad 

 as long, reticulate ; the enclosed area not clearly defined, the 

 marginal carinse being very far apart and merging into tlie 

 margin of the segment before the apex, two short carinse from 

 the base not reaching tlie middle, about twice as far from the 

 marginal carinse as from each other. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining. Second abscissa of the radius more than twice as 

 long as the first, and about twice as long as the first trans- 

 verse cubital uervure, a little shorter than the cubital margin 

 of the second cubital cell; recurrent nervure received close 

 to the apex of the first cubital cell. Stigma less than twice 

 as long as broad. 



Hub. Kuranda, N. Queensland {Tia-ner) ; May. 



This is the smallest Australian fossorial wasp which I have 

 seen. I took it from the calj^x of a blossom of Eugenia. 

 The second cubital cell is much longer than in other species 

 of the genus. 



All the tyjies of the species described in this paper are in 

 the British Museum. For the Brisbane species collected 

 by Mr. Hacker I am indebted to Dr. Hamlyn-Harris, of the 

 Queensland Museum. 



VI. — The Porcupine of Tenasserim and Southern Siccm. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The National Museum owes to Mr. C. Boden Kloss a first 

 typical set of the tine collection of mammals from S.E. Siam, 

 of which he has been giving an account to the Zoological 

 Society. ^ Among these there is a Porcupine, wliich for want 

 of material for comparison he has asked me to work out for 

 him, and I have at the same time examined tiie other speci- 

 mens that the Museum contains from the same region. 



Porcupines from the Burma-Siani area have been some- 



