76 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 



race, C. fervidus subsp. icoodfordi. It can be easily distin- 

 guished by the absence of the flavo-hyaline patch at the base 

 of tho wings. 



Cryptocheilus (Priocnemis) salomonis, sp. n. 



? . Clypeus more than twice as broad as long, sligbtly 

 convex, almost transverse at the apex ; the labrum exposed, 

 broad and transverse. Head, pronotum, and sides of the 

 thorax sparsely clothed with long black hairs ; eyes con- 

 verging very slightly towards the vertex, where they are 

 separated by a distance equal to the length of the third and 

 one-third of the fourth joint of the flagellum, the posterior 

 ocelli a little further from the eyes than from each other. 

 First and second joints of the flagellum a little shorter than 

 the third and fourth combined. Posterior margin of the 

 pronotum strongly arched. Median segment indistinctly 

 transversely striated, with a low blunt tubercle on each side 

 at the base. Abdomen shining, sparsely punctured, the 

 apical segment clothed with stiff fulvous hairs. Third 

 abscissa of the radius as long as the first and second com- 

 bined; first recurrent nervure received a little before the 

 apex of the second cubital cell, second at middle of the third 

 cubital cell. Cubital nervure of the hind wing interstitial 

 with the transverse median nervure. Posterior tibia3 strongly 

 serrate, tarsal ungues with one tooth. Black ; femora, tibia?, 

 tarsi, and scape ferruginous brown. Wings fuscous, with a 

 strong purple gloss. 



Length 24-26 mm. 



Bab. Savo, Solomon Islands ( Woodford) . 



A specimen sent by Mr. Froggatt from the Solomon 

 Islands, without any more definite locality, has the flagellum 

 wholly ferruginous. 



Pseudagenia numeria, Sm., subsp. mendana, subsp. n. 



? . Differs from numeria in the sculpture of the median 

 segment, which is distinctly transversely striated except at 

 the base; there is also an obscure median sulcus at the base 

 and at the apex. The segment is also a little broader in 

 proportion to the length, and the second joint of the flagellum 

 is a little longer. The second recurrent nervure is received 

 at one-third from the base of the third cubital cell in the 

 present form and at two-fifths from the base in numeria. 

 P. Valeria, Turn., from Queensland, is another subspecies in 

 which the median segment is distinctly margined laterally 



