Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 603 



obliquo, auricomato utriiique ; pygidio lato, baud compresso ; 

 flagello fusco, 

 S . Niger, albido-pilosus, punctatus, alis flavo-hyalinis, tarsis 



brunneis. 

 Long., 5 17 mm., (S 19 mm. 



? . Head subquadrate^ a little broader than long ; the 

 clypeus short, shallowly emarginate and with a median 

 carina; front above the base of the antennae closely punc- 

 tured ; the vertex shining, with a few scattered punctures ; 

 a deep broad groove on each side running obliquely from 

 the eye almost to the posterior margin of the head and 

 densely clothed with long golden hairs. Pronotum sparsely 

 punctured, more closely on the anterior portion, where some 

 of the punctures are confluent longitudinally ; as long as 

 the breadth on the anterior margiu, distinctly broadened 

 posteriorly. Scutellum, median segment, and abdomen 

 very sparsely punctured ; scutellum twice as broad as long, 

 slightly narrowed posteriorly ; median segment as long as 

 the pronotum, gradually broadened from the base, vertically 

 truncate posteriorly ; first abdominal segment truncate at 

 the base, a little broadened to the apex, and slightly longer 

 than the second segment. 



S . Clypeus emarginate at the apex, with a narrow cordate 

 space reaching from the base to the apex smooth and flat- 

 tened and shining, margined by raised carinse, the sides of 

 the clypeus densely clothed with long whitish pubescence. 

 Head, thorax, and median segment closely but not coarsely 

 punctured; the interantennal prominence well developed 

 and broadly rounded at the apex ; a transverse carina below 

 the anterior ocellus not nearly reaching the eyes, Anteunse 

 inserted a little further from each other than from the eyes. 

 Anterior angles of the pronotum not prominent, the ante- 

 rior margin straight and slightly raised. Mesonotum with 

 the usual four longitudinal furrows, the inner pair very 

 broad and deep; scutellum more sparsely punctured, trian- 

 gular ; median segment short and broad, rounded. Abdomen 

 a little longer than the head, thorax, and median segment 

 combined, not slender, rather sparsely punctured, the seg- 

 ments strongly constricted at the base, the apical segment 

 small, triangular, with a median carina ; hypopygium 

 without lateral spines. Third abscissa of the radius longer 

 than the second by nearly one half ; second recurrent ner- 

 vure received close to tlie base of the third cubital cell, 

 almost interstitial with the second transverse cubital 

 nervure, strongly bent outwards in the middle. 

 Hab. Kuranda, Queensland (F. P. Dodd). 



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