GO Mr. E. E. Turner on Fossorial Ihjmenoptera. 



fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh joints of the flagellum are 

 flattened beneath and more or less produced into spines as 

 in some species of Bembex \ but the antennre of the male of 

 ^. relucens, Sm., reseml)le those of Zoijphium. The males 

 of Sphodrotes, Kohl, show no such antenna! peculiarities 

 and, as I have previously pointed out, that genus is near 

 Acanthostetkus, Sm., and cannot be placed ver}'^ near Seri- 

 cophorus and Zoyphium. The males of Sericophorus appear 

 to be much rarer in collections than the females ; and only 

 one species of the genus, S. relucens, Sm., has a wide range, 

 occurring from Cape York to Adelaide, and at least as far 

 west as Hermannsburg in Central Australia. 



Zoyphium dipteroides, Turn. 



Sericophorus dipteroides, Turn. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xix. p. 275 

 (1907). ?. 



Zoypliium funehris, Turn. 

 Sericophorus funehris, Turn. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xix. p. 276 



(1907). ^: 



These two species have no appendiculate cell, and therefore 

 cannot be retained in Sericophorus. How far this distinction 

 will prove to be of generic value is doubtful, as it places the 

 very closely allied <S. bicolor, Sm., and.^. erythrosoma, Turn., 

 in different genera. None of the species of Zoyphium 

 described by me have the tooth on each 'side of the second 

 (first) dorsal segment mentioned by Kohl in his description 

 of the genus. 



Subfamily Cbabroninje. 

 Dasypructus expectatus^ sp. n. 



5 . Nigra, opaca ; mandibulis basi scapoque liavis ; pronoto in 

 medio interrupto, callis humeralibus, segmento abdominali se- 

 cundo macula miniita utrinque, tertio quarfcoque fascia angusta 

 basali utrinque, quintoque macula mediana nigra, aurantiacis ; 

 tibiis tarsisque testaceo-brunneis ; alis hyaliuis, venis nigris. 



Long. 10 mm. 



Clypeus covered with short silvery pile, the anterior 

 margin produced in the middle into two short blunt teeth. 

 Eyes separated from each other at the nearest point on the 

 front by a distance equal to about two-thirds of the length 

 of the scape ; ocelli in a very broad triangle, the posterior 

 pair a little nearer to each other than to the eyes, and about 

 half as far again from the posterior margin of the head as 



