Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorud Ilymenoptet'a. 149 



//< monottis a'(./>/pti<iCii.<), Tiarl. 



Weamaellnhis cpyyptiacus, Rad, Bull. Soc. NaluraJ. Moscou, p. 47.3 

 (I8b8). <S. 



A male in tlie British ^luseuin from Uganda answers well 

 to the dt'Scrii)tion, but has the oreater jiart o£ the i'eniora, us 

 well as the tibije and tarsi, ferruginous; tlie apex of the 

 alidomen is red from the middle of the third segment." With 

 this I associate a female fiom North Riiodesia in whicli the 

 legs are black, the calcaria whitish, and the abdomen .red 

 fiom the base of the third segment. The submedian cell in 

 this species is slightly longer than the median. 



Hah. Mt. Kokanjero, S.W. of Elgon, 6000 ft., Uganda 

 {S. A. Neave)^ August ; 70 miles west of Kariba Gorge, 

 N. Rhodesia (^Siloerlock), June. 



I assume that this is the species described by Radosz- 

 kowski, being tlie only species of the genus with similar 

 colouring known to me. 1 have, however, seen a species 

 more nearly allied to Plnniceps in wiiicli the three apical 

 segments of the abdomen are red in the female ; but this has 

 a short clyj)eus and the tarsal ungues are bidentate near the 

 base, and I do not think it can have been mistaken for a 

 Homonoius. It was taken at Harar. 



IJomonotus nursei^ sp. n. 



$ . Nigra ; mandibulis fusco-ferrugineis ; antennis fuscis, subtus 

 fusco-testaceis ; cly[)eo apice, teguhsque testaceis ; pedibus fuecis ; 

 tarsis pallida t'errugiiieis, articulo basali basi, calcaribusque 

 albidis ; alis hj'aliuis, venis basi testaceis, apice fuscis. 

 Long. 4-6 mm. 



? . Clypens produced over the mandibles, very broadly 

 rounded at the apex ; second anil third joints of the tlagellum 

 subequal. Front strongly convex, tem[des very narrow, the 

 eyes nearly reaching the hind margin of the head. Posterior 

 ocelli very far apart, about four times as far from each other 

 as from the eyes. Fronotum scarcely longer than the meso- 

 notum, much broader than long, narrowed anteriorly. Median 

 segment emarginate posteriorly, the apical angles produced 

 into stout and ratlier blunt spines. First and second ab lo- 

 miiuil segments about equal in length, the basal half of the 

 second dorsal segment latlier thinly covered with very short 

 grey pubescence. The longest calcar of the huid and inter- 

 niediate tibiae a little longer than the basal joint of the tarsi. 

 First cubital cell narrowly rounded at the base; submedian 

 cell a little shorter than the median; tiiird abscissa of the 

 radius longer than the second ; first recurieut nervure 



