Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hyiyicnoptera. 319 



posterior ocelli twice as fur from each other as from tiie eyes. 

 M'.'sonotum shining, with scattered punctures, the anterior 

 third closely punctured and clothed with cinereous hairs, 

 which extend on to the pronotuni, and more sparsely on to 

 the mesopleiirai. Scutellum smooth and shining. Median 

 segment strongly longitudinally striated, the S()ace between 

 the striae more finely transversely striat'.'d, forming reticu- 

 lations. Abdomen shining, microscopically punctured. 

 Kadial cell very shortj on the costal margin about twice as 

 long as the third abscissa of the radiu?:, and not more than 

 halt' as long again as the apical margin of the cell; third 

 abscissa of the radius half as long again as the second, but 

 only one-third of the length of the second transverse cubital 

 nervure. 



Hab. Nyasaland, Zomba {H. S. Stannns). 



The colouring of the abdomen is unusual in the genus. 

 I use J urine's name iJimorpha for the genus instead of 

 Astatus^ Latr., as to which there is some confusion. 



Notogonia nigricans, Walk. 



Notogonia nicp-icnns, Walk. List of Hymen, in Egypt, p. 21 (1871). $ . 

 Notoqonia sculjjturata, Kohl, Auu. Naturh. llofuius. Wieu, vii. p. 221 

 (1892). d. 



There is a co-type of Walker's species in the British 

 Museum. 



Hah. Egypt ; Port Soudan ; Albania; Gibraltar ; St. Vin- 

 cent, Cape Verde Islands. 



JSotogoyiia lyalumhula, Kolil. 



Notor/onia palumhula, Kobl, Auu. Naturh. Hofmus. Wien, ix. p. 304 



(1894). 

 Notoijonia piinctipleura, Cam., Sjcistedt, Kiliniandjaro-Meru Exp. ii. 



p. 285 (1910). 6. 



This is merely the tropical subspecies of nigricans ; the 

 pygidial area of the female is narrovver. 



IJab. Cameroous ; Kilimandjaro ; Lake Nyasa ; N.E. 

 Rhodesia. 



Notogonia reticulata. Cam. 

 Lcjitolarra reticulata, Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. p. 31 (1900). 



This is the Indian subspecies of nigricans, differing from 

 tlie typical form in the rather finer punctures of the meso- 

 Motum. 



