58 HYMENOPTERA. 



Female. Length 4 lines. The head, thorax, legs, and basal 

 segment of the abdomen obscure blood-red, the rest of the abdo- 

 men black ; the head, thorax, and base of the segments of the 

 abdomen strongly punctured, the basal segment rugose. 



Hob. S. Australia (Lower Plenty). (Coll. R. Bakewell, Esq.) 



15. ^ELURUS FERVENS. 



Male. Length 5i lines. Black : the head and thorax closely 

 punctured, the metathorax finely so ; the abdomen shining, and 

 covered with fine, very shallow punctures. The head and disk 

 of the thorax with a pale fulvous pubescence, on the sides of the 

 thorax and beneath it is cinereous. The anterior margin of the 

 appendage, beneath which the antennae are inserted, yellow ; the 

 clypeus anteriorly and the mandibles yellow, the latter ferrugi- 

 nous at their apex ; the sides of the head with a long fringe of 

 pale hairs. The anterior and posterior margins of the prothorax 

 yellow, the yellow colour uniting in the middle ; the tegulae and 

 post-scutellum yellow ; wings hyaline, the marginal cell with a 

 slight fuscous cloud; the legs ferruginous, with the coxa? and 

 trochanters black. The apical ventral segment emarginate at the 

 apex, with a central acute spine. 



Hob. S. Australia (Lower Plenty). (Coll. R. Bakewell, Esq.) 



Species of Brazil. 



16. J3LURUS NASUTUS. Plate III. fig. 7 ? . 



^lurus nasutus, King, Berl Abhandl. (1842) 43. 1. f. 11 <? , 12 ? . 

 Hab. Brazil. 



17. jELURUS CLYPEATUS. 



^Elurus clypeatus, King, Berl. Abhandl. (1842) 43. 2<? . 

 Hab. Brazil. 



Genus 3. ARIPHRON. 

 Ariphron, Erichs. Wiegm. Arch. (1842) p. 264. 



1. ARIPHRON BICOLOR. Plate III. fig. 13 ? . 



Ariphron bicolor, Erichs. Wiegm. Arch. (1842) 266. 239. t. 5. f. 8, 



8a?. 



Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 146. 

 Hab. Tasmania. 



Notwithstanding the remarkable form of this insect, it is very 



