Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 545 



abscissa of tlie radius a little longer than the second ; the 

 third cubital cell receives tlie second recurrent nervure at 

 one-quarter from the base. 



Length 10 mm. 



? . Blackish brown ; mandibles, antennse, and legs paler 

 brown; pygidium reddish brown. Head shining, smooth, 

 much narrowed posteriorly, nearly twice as broad anteriorly 

 as posteriorly, clypeus without a carina ; a very short and 

 shallow frontal sulcus. Pronotum as long as broad, slightly 

 narrowed posteiiorly, the anterior and lateral margins dis- 

 tinctly raised, a median sulcus nearly reaching the posterior 

 margin. Scutellum a little longer than broad, rounded at 

 the apex. Abdomen sparsely punctured, the first dorsal 

 segment narrowly depressed at the apex, the raised portion 

 before the depression stiaiglit, not emarginate. Second 

 dorsal segment with three strongly raised transverse carina?, 

 the apical margin also slightly raised, forming another lower 

 carina. Pygidium elongate-ovate, the dorsal plate truncate 

 at the apex and not reaching to the apex of the ventral 

 segment. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hah. Eaglehawk Neck; February. ^ ? in cop. Swan- 

 sea {Lea). 



A male from Eaglehawk Neck has the aljdomen, exce|)t 

 the seventh segment and the apex of the sixth, blackish 

 brown. 



Genus Neozeleboria, Rohwer. 

 Key to the Tasmanian Species, 



Hypopygium narrowly truncate at the base of the 



apical epiue ; abdomen with lateral yellow 



spots N. 2»'oxi>na, Turn, 



Hypopygium rounded at the base of the apical 



spine ; abdomen black, immaculate N. carhiicoUis, Turn. 



$?■ 

 Pronotum flat, with a sulcus from the anterior 



margin to the middle iV. proxima, Turn. 



Pronotum strongly elevated along the median 



line, the elevation broadened anteriorly ; 



without a sulcus N. carinicoUis, Turn, 



Neozeleboria carinicoUis ^ sp. n. 



? . Head fully half as broad again as long, very strojigly 

 rounded at the posterior angles, shining, sparsely punctured, 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol xv. '61 



