^Ir. li. E. Turner on Fossorial Ilijmenoptera. 373 



withdrawn that it is quite possible that the spines nre really 

 present, though I cannot see them. Tlie colour is very- 

 distinct, the apical dorsal segment is narrower at the apex 

 and rounded, not subtruncate as in nidbii, and the structure 

 of the eighth and ninth joints of the flagellum is different. 



Bembex albofasciata, Sm. 



Beiiihex albofasciata, Sm. Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist, (i) xii. p. 296 



(J 873). c?-.. 

 Bembex karscfiii, Haiidl. Sitzuugsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, cii. v. 742 



(1893). c??. 



These descriptions undoubtedly refer to the same species. 

 The range does not appear to be very extensive, the series in 

 the National Collection being mostly from the Southern 

 Transvaal, with one or two specimens from Basutoland and 

 Zululand. 



Bembex diversipennis , Sm. 



Bembex diversipennis, Sm. Ann. & Mas:. Nat. Hist. (4) xii. p. 297 

 (1873). c?$. 



The localities in the National Collection are from Angola 

 to Nyasaland, Mashonaland, and Harar, Abyssinia. 



Subfamily Nyssonin.^. 



Genus Ammatomus, Costa. 



Ammatonms, Costa, Fauna Napoli, Nyssonid. p. 36 (1859). 



Gon/tes, Handl. (pars) Sitzimgsb. Aljad. Wiss. Wien, xcvii. p 317 



(i888). 

 Tanyoprymnus, Cam. Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc. xxxi. p. 375 (1905). 



I cannot agree with Handlirsch in sinking this genus in 

 Gorytes, though 1 think that Ashmead goes too far in 

 removing it from his family Nyssonidse and placing it with 

 his Stizidse. In addition to the list of species given by 

 Handlirsch in the supplement to his most valuable mono- 

 graph as belonging to the species group of coarctatus, Spin. 

 (Ammatoinus), the following species should be included : — 



A. alipes, Bingb. Fauna British India, Hymen, i. p. 273 (1897). (Go- 

 rytes a.) 



A. ornatus, Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 248 (1868). {Gorytes o.) 

 (nee Sm. 1856). Syn. Gorytes decoratus, Handl. 



A. icarioides, Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 499 (1908). (Gorytes i.) 



A. lonyitarsis, Cam. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxxi. p. 376 (1905). 

 (Tanyoprymnus I.) 



