438 Mr. E. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 



exceed one-eiglitli of tlie lengtli of that joint. Tlie male Is 

 very different from fuUginosus, and though it differs much 

 from the female, the sexual dimorphism is not as marked as 

 in that species. 



Batozonus gowdey't, sp. n. 



5 . Nigra ; maadibulis fasco-ferrugineis ; femoribus, tibiis tarsisque 



ferrugineis ; alis nigro-cseruleia. 

 S . Niger ; maudibulis, clypeo, fronte, orbitis posticis, femoribus, 



tibiis tarsisque ferrugineis ; flagelio subtus fusco-ferrugineo ; 



pronoto margine posteriore fascia obliqua utrinque flava ; alis 



fusco-purpureis. 

 Long., $ 15-17 mm., S 13-15 mm. 



? . Except in colour tliis species strongly resembles 

 B. separabilis, but has the scutellura more strongly com- 

 pressed, without a flat dorsal surface, and distinctly longi- 

 tudinally carinate in the middle ; the clypeus is transverse at 

 the apex ; the labrum without a sulcus and very narrowly 

 notched in the middle ; the two apical dorsal segments more 

 finely punctured. 



(J . The differences between this and the male of separa- 

 bilis are mostly in colour, but the scutellum is much more 

 strongly compressed in gowdeyi. 



Hah. Uganda, Mabira Forest, July (C G. Gowdey) ; 

 Tero Forest, July (C. G. Gowdey) ; Tero Forest, 3800 ft., 

 September {S. A. Neave) ; Bugoma Forest, Unyoro, 3700 ft., 

 December (aS. A. Neave). 



A single specimen labelled " West Africa" from F. Smith's 

 collection. 



This is very near separabilis, and will doubtless prove to 

 be the western representative of that species; but the diffe- 

 rence in the form of the scutellum seems to be a sufficient 

 specific distinction. 



Batozonus capensis, Dahlb. 



Pompilus capensis, Dahlb. Hymen. Europ. i. p. 49 (1843). $. 

 Pompilus vindex, Sm. Descr. New Species Hymen, p. 144 (1879). 5 • 

 Pompilus ancyloneurus, Cam, Ann. Transvaal Mus. ii. p. 123 (1910). 



A variety of the female from Magadi Junction, British 

 East Africa, has the wings fuscous flushed with blue. The 

 male from the same locality is normal. 



