48 ]\Ir. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera, 



case in the fresh specimen not being materially different from 

 that in Marmosa. 



The tooth-characters are all as described in the type, and it 

 may be noted in addition that the upper milk-secator is 

 narrower than in Marmosa, and has its inner lobe further 

 back, the tip of the lobe being behind the level of the ante- 

 rior main cusp, while it is in front o£ it in Marmosa. 



Allowing for the difference in age, I can see no reason to 

 suppose tiiat the Yungas specimen is specifically distinct 

 from that from Pozuzo. 



VI. — Motes on Fossorial Hym.enoptera. — TX. 

 By Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



On some new Sjjecies from the Australian and Austro- 

 Malayan Regions. 



Family Thynnidae. 



Agriomyia cornuticollis, sp. n. 



2 . Mgra ; pygidio flagelloque testaceo-brunneis, calcariis pallidis ; 

 pronoto subconcavo, angulis auticis tuberculatis, posticis spina 

 erecta armatis. 

 Long. 8 mm. 



Head very thin and almost flat, more than half as broad 

 again as long, rounded at the posterior angles, more than 

 twice as broad as the thorax. Pronotum broader anteriorly 

 than long, narrowed posteriorly, slightly concave, strongly 

 raised and tuberculate at the anterior angles, armed with an 

 erect acute tubercle on each side close to the posterior 

 angles, the posterior margin arched, the angles acute. 

 Scutellum narrow ; median segment shorter than the pro- 

 notum, broadened posteriorly and obliquely sloped. Shining, 

 the head finely aciculate, thorax and abdomen with a few 

 fine scattered punctures. First dorsal segment broadly 

 depressed at the apex, the raised basal portion broadly and 

 rather shallowly emarginate at the apex. Second dorsal 

 segment with five well-defined transverse carina9, including 

 the raised apical margin ; pygidium lanceolate. Ventral 

 seo-ments more strongly punctured, the fifth closely and 

 coarsely punctured. 



Hab. Hermannsburg, Central Australia {H. J. Hillier). 



This female is easily distinguished by the peculiar form of 

 the pronotum. 



