266 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 
to the margin of the wing; second recurrent nervure received 
close to the middle of the third cubital cell. 
Hab. Sagara, western desert, 10 miles south of Cairo ; 
July 30, 1915 (Egyptian Department of Agriculture). 
Very distinct owing to the very short stout antennze and 
the sculpture of the sternites. 
Family Psammocharide. 
Deuteragenia kandiensis, sp. n. 
@. Nigra; femoribus anticis, tibiis anticis, scapoque apice subtus 
ferrugineis ; mandibulis dimidio apicali brunneis ; alis hyalinis, 
venis fuscis, macula parva fusca circa nervulum, maculaque 
magna cellulam radialem, apice excepto, cellulas cubitales 
secundum tertiumque, celluleque discoidalis secundi majorem 
partem occupante fusca. 
Long. 11 mm. 
9. Mandibles tridentate at the apex, the outer tooth the 
longest ; clypeus convex, broadly truncate at the apex, finely 
and closely punctured ; antennee inserted a little above the 
base of the clypeus. Front and vertex finely and very closely 
punctured ; posterior ocelli as far from each other as from the 
eyes. Antenne a little shorter than the head, thorax, and 
median segment combined ; second joint of the flagellum half 
as long again as the third. Maxille at the base furnished 
with a brush of very long hairs. ‘lhorax and median 
segment finely and closely punctured ; pronotum very widely 
arched posteriorly ; scutellum convex, much broader than 
long ; median segment rounded, with a shallow longitudinal 
groove from the base which is not continued on the apieal 
slope, the segment very sparsely clothed with long whitish 
hairs. Abdomen shining, sparsely and minutely punctured ; 
the transverse groove on the second sternite well developed ; 
hind tibize without spines. Second abscissa of the radius 
nearly twice as long as the third; the second cubital cell on 
the cubitus scarcely longer than the third; cubitus extending 
to the margin of the wing. Nervulus distinctly postfureal ; 
cubitus of the hind wing originating beyond the transverse 
median nervure. 
Hab. Kandy, Ceylon, September 1918 (O. S. Wickwar) ; 
OPE 
Allied to D. marpesia, Bingh., from the Malay Peninsula, 
but in that species the coxz, trochanters, and femora of the 
intermediate and hind legs are red; the median segment 
granulate, without a groove from the base and less strongly 
