﻿j\lr. 
  R. 
  E. 
  Turner 
  on 
  Fossorial 
  Ilymenoptera. 
  309 
  

  

  second 
  segment, 
  and 
  a 
  spot 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  third 
  segment 
  

   yellow. 
  Wings 
  subhyaline 
  ; 
  nervures 
  fuscous. 
  

  

  £ 
  . 
  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  subopaque, 
  more 
  closely 
  and 
  finely 
  

   punctured 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  and 
  thinly 
  covered 
  with 
  short 
  

   greyish 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  strongly 
  but 
  rather 
  sparsely 
  

   punctured, 
  the 
  first 
  segment 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  greatest 
  

   breadth. 
  

  

  Black 
  ; 
  the 
  abdomen 
  with 
  strong 
  blue 
  reflections 
  ; 
  clypeus, 
  

   the 
  scape 
  beneath, 
  a 
  transverse 
  band 
  interrupted 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  on 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  a 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  postscutellum, 
  the 
  

   pronotum, 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  pleurae 
  and 
  the 
  legs 
  yellow, 
  

   an 
  apical 
  band 
  on 
  segments 
  1-4, 
  very 
  broad 
  on 
  the 
  first 
  

   segment 
  and 
  continued 
  on 
  the 
  ventral 
  surface, 
  brownish 
  

   orange, 
  ventral 
  surface 
  of 
  abdomen 
  and 
  three 
  apical 
  dorsal 
  

   segments 
  dull 
  testaceous 
  brown. 
  Wings 
  subhyaline, 
  nervures 
  

   fuscous 
  ; 
  the 
  radial 
  cell 
  very 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Palau 
  Islands 
  (Semper). 
  

  

  Types 
  in 
  Berlin 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Family 
  Sapygidae. 
  

   Sapyga 
  morawitzi, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  $. 
  Flava, 
  vertice, 
  mesonoto, 
  macula 
  meliali 
  flava, 
  scutelli 
  post- 
  

   scutellique 
  marginibus, 
  segment 
  i 
  medialis 
  apice, 
  mesosterno, 
  

   abdominisque 
  segmeutis 
  basi 
  et 
  apice 
  ferrugineis 
  ; 
  antennis 
  

   pallide 
  ferrugineis, 
  scapo 
  llavo; 
  alis 
  hyalims, 
  venis 
  fuscis 
  ; 
  clypeo 
  

   margine 
  apicali 
  dentibus 
  binis 
  armato. 
  

  

  Long. 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  ? 
  . 
  Clypeus 
  coarsely 
  and 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  with 
  two 
  teeth 
  

   near 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  margin. 
  Antennae 
  a 
  little 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  without 
  the 
  median 
  seg- 
  

   ment, 
  the 
  second 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  flagellum 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  scape 
  

   and 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  third 
  joint; 
  the 
  apical 
  joints 
  

   distinctly 
  longer 
  than 
  broad. 
  Head, 
  thorax, 
  and 
  median 
  

   segment 
  closely 
  and 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  metapleune 
  

   shining 
  and 
  much 
  more 
  shallowly 
  punctured, 
  not 
  striated. 
  

   Dorsal 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  finely 
  and 
  closely 
  punctured- 
  

   rugulose, 
  much 
  more 
  finely 
  so 
  on 
  the 
  ventral 
  segments. 
  

   Tegulse 
  shining, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  punctures. 
  Submedian 
  cell 
  a 
  

   little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  median, 
  third 
  abscissa 
  of 
  the 
  radius 
  

   more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  second, 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  

   recened 
  just 
  before 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  cubital 
  cell, 
  

   second 
  at 
  about 
  one-eighth 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  

   cubital 
  cell. 
  

  

  Pale 
  yellow; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  and 
  the 
  femora 
  above 
  pale 
  

   ferruginous 
  ; 
  vertex, 
  the 
  area 
  round 
  the 
  ocelli, 
  mesonomm 
  

  

  