Mr. B. E. Turner on Fossorial Uymenoptera. 251 



Lnrra scelesfa, Turn. 

 Larra scelesta, Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 474 (1908). 5 . 



I doubt if this is more than a variety of L. femorata. I 

 can find no good structural disiiiictioii, and the colour of the 

 legs seems to vary, intermediate forms occurring. 



Larra erythropyga, sp. n. • 



$ . Nigra ; segmentis abdominalibus lateribus albo-pilosis ; seg- 

 mento sexto, plerunaque etiam in parte quinto, rufis ; tegulis 

 testaceis ; alls fuscis. 



Long. 17-20 mm. 



? . Clypeus opaque, finely a-nd closely punctured, the 

 apical uiar<iin transverse; iront above the base of the an- 

 tennse shining "and concave, the marginal grooves very 

 distinct, the upper part of the front and the vertex opaque, 

 finely and closely [juncturrd. Second joint of the fl.igellum 

 twice as long as the first and about half as long again as the 

 third; eyes separated on the vertex by a distance slightly 

 exceeding the combined length of the two basal joints of the 

 flagellum. Tliorax finely and closely punctured, opaque, the 

 mesopleurse shining and less closely punctured. Median 

 segment longer than the mesonotum, granulate, with a low- 

 median carina not reaching the apex, the posterior slope 

 finely rugulose and divided i)y a longitudinal sulcus. Abtlo- 

 nien shining, ahnost smooth ; pygidial area triangular, 

 almost smootli, the sides nearly half as long again as the 

 basal breadth. Fore tibise with a row of spines on the outer 

 margin. Third abscissa of the radius a little longer than the 

 second, which is equal to the first ; the second recurrent 

 nervure received close to the middle of the cubital margin of 

 the second cubital cell, very narrowly separated from the 

 first recurrent nervure. 



Hab. Nyasaland, S.VV. of Lake Chilwa; January IdlA 

 (S. A. Nmve). 



Superficially this species strongly resembles the North- 

 American L. ati'.lis, Fabr., but has the pronotum raised 

 much higher than in that insect. 



Notogonia austral'm, Sauss. 



Tackytes anstralis, Sauss. Mem. soc. phys. & hist. uat. Geneve, xiv. 



p. 19 (1854). 

 Lairada austraUs, Sauss. M^lang. Hymen, i. p. 69 (1854). 

 Larra australis, Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, p. 474 (1908). 



This species should be placed in Notogonia, having the 



