THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 58. OCTOBER 1912. 



XLVTII. — Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. — X. 

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



On new Species from the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. 



Family Psammocharidae (olim Pompilidce). 



Cei'opales pictus, Shuck. 



Ceropales }7icfa, Shuck. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, ii. p. 70 (1837). J • 

 Ceropa/es ruficollis, Cam. Sjostedf s Kilimandjaro-Merii Exp. ii. p. 260 

 (1910). ■$ . 



Hab. Cape Colony (Shuckard) ; British East Africa, 

 Kikuyu Escarpment, Kijabe to Limorn, 7000 feet (S. A. 

 Neave) ; Harar, Abyssinia (G. Knstensen). 



Abyssinian specimens are daiker on the legs and antennae, 

 ■which are only irregularly tinted with fuseo-fcriuginous, 

 not almost entirely ferruginous as in the typical form. 



Xanthampulex pernix, Bingh. 

 Ceroixiles perniic, Bingh. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxy. p. 425 (1896). 



This species, though near to X. trifur, Schulz, in colour, is 

 probably distinct. The eyes are strongly conveigent towards 

 the clypeus, as in the other species of the genus. The 

 sculpture differs somewhat from the description of trifur, 



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