62 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Ilymenoptera. 



Very near D. expectatus, but the eyes are nearer together 

 on the front and the first abdominal segment distinctly 

 longer. There are also small colour differences, especially 

 on the legs. 



Dasyproctus burnettianus, sp. n. 



5 . Nigra, mandibulis, seapo, flagello articulis duobus basalibns, 

 pronoto, callis humeralibus, mesopleuris macula parva, scutello, 

 petiolo macula parva utrinque, segmentis dorsalibus 2-4 fascia 

 interrupta basali, feraoribus subtus, tibiis tarsisque flavo- 

 ochraceis ; segmentis dorsalibus quinto soxtoque totis quartoque 

 apice testaceis ; alis sordide hyalinis. 



Long. 9 mm. 



Eyes separated on the front by a distance equal to fully 

 half the length of the scape ; second joint of the flagellum 

 a little longer than the third and less than twice as long as 

 the first ; the front deeply hollowed^ the antennae inserted 

 nearer to the eyes than to each other ; a narrow groove on 

 the inner margin of the eyes near the summit. Head very 

 large ; ocelli placed in a very broad triangle, the posterior 

 pair nearly as far from the eyes as from each other, and 

 more than half as far again from the posterior margin of the 

 head as from each other. A deeply punctured transverse 

 groove at the base of the postscutellum and another at the 

 base of the median segment ; the enclosed triangular area at 

 the base of the median segment finely obliquely striated and 

 divided by a sulcus which is continued to the apex of the 

 segment. First abdominal segment nearly half as long 

 again as the posterior femur, the narrow petiole occupying 

 a little more than half the length of the segment ; apical 

 segment very narrow, the sides almost parallel. Transverse 

 cubital nervure received a little before the middle of the 

 radial cell, recurrent nervure received a little beyond two- 

 thirds from the base of the cubital cell. 



Hab. Bundaberg, Queensland {R. C. L. Perhins). 



Differs from D. expectatus in the longer petiole as well as 

 in colour and in the proportion of the joints of the tlagellum, 

 I do not think that this is the female of D. conator^ Turn., 

 though it is just possible. 



Dasyproctus agilis, Sm. 



Crabro (Rhopalum) agilis, Sm. Proc. Linn. Soc, Zool. iii, p. 18 

 (1858). $; Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 528 (1908). 



