﻿THE 
  ANNALS 
  

  

  AND 
  

  

  MAGAZINE 
  OF 
  NATURAL 
  HISTORY 
  

  

  [EIGHTH 
  SERIES.] 
  

   No. 
  40. 
  APRIL 
  1911. 
  

  

  XXX 
  I 
  IT. 
  — 
  Notes 
  on 
  Fossorial 
  Hymenoptera. 
  — 
  III. 
  

   By 
  Roland 
  E. 
  Turner, 
  F.Z.S., 
  F.E.S. 
  

  

  On 
  some 
  Species 
  o/Thynnidee, 
  Scoliidse, 
  and 
  Sapygidge. 
  

  

  Unless 
  otherwise 
  mentioned, 
  the 
  insects 
  described 
  in 
  this 
  

   paper 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  Collection 
  at 
  South 
  Kensington. 
  

   Some 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  Berlin 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Family 
  Thynnidae. 
  

   Spilot/iynnus 
  tucumanensis 
  , 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  ° 
  . 
  Nigra, 
  abdominis 
  segmento 
  primo 
  macula 
  mediali, 
  segmentis 
  

   2-5 
  maculis 
  lateralibus 
  flavis, 
  segmento 
  primo 
  antice 
  producto 
  

   tuberculato 
  ; 
  pedibus 
  pallide 
  testaceis. 
  

   Long. 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Head 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  anterior 
  breadth, 
  strongly 
  

   rounded 
  posteriorly, 
  closely 
  and 
  rather 
  deeply 
  punctured, 
  

   slightly 
  convex, 
  depressed 
  anteriorly, 
  with 
  a 
  shining, 
  slightly 
  

   concave 
  area 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  and 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  antennae. 
  

   Thorax 
  very 
  narrow 
  ; 
  the 
  pronotum 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  breadth 
  

   on 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin, 
  slightly 
  narrowed 
  posteriorly, 
  shining, 
  

   with 
  a 
  few 
  scattered 
  punctures, 
  the 
  anterior 
  angles 
  prominent 
  

   and 
  subtuberculate, 
  a 
  short 
  longitudinal 
  groove 
  from 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  margin, 
  the 
  sides 
  strongly 
  depressed 
  near 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  margin 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  and 
  median 
  segment 
  shining, 
  

   very 
  narrow 
  ; 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  depressed 
  and 
  flattened, 
  

   longer 
  than 
  broad. 
  Abdomen 
  narrowed 
  at 
  the 
  extremities. 
  

  

  Ann. 
  <h 
  Mag. 
  X. 
  Hist. 
  Set. 
  8. 
  Vol. 
  vu. 
  20 
  

  

  