58 HVMENOPTERA. 



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. 



Hub. S. Austraha (Lower Plenty). (Coll. R. Bakewell, Esq.) 



15. ^LURUS FERVENS. 



Male. Length 54 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 antenna; are inserted, yellow ; the 

 clyjjeus anteriorly and the mandibles yellow, the latter ferrugi- 

 nous at their apex ; the sides of the head with a long fi-inge of 

 pale hairs. The anterior and posterior margins of the prothorax 

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

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

 slight fuscous cloud; tlie legs ferruginous, with the coxse and 

 trochanters black. The apical ventral segment emarginate at the 

 apex, with a central acute spine. 



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



Species of Brazil. 



16. JElurus nasutus. Plate IIL fig. 7?- 



^lurus nasutus, Klug,Berl. Abhandl. {\S42) 43. 1. f. llj, 12? . 

 Hab. Brazil. 



17- ^Elurus clypeatus. 



^lurus clypeatus, Klug, Berl. Abhandl. (1842) 43. 2 <? . 



Hab. Brazil. 



Genus 3. ARIPHRON. 

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



1. Ariphron bicolor. Plate IIL fig. 13? . 



Ariphron bicolor, Erichs. Wiegm.Arch. (1842) 26G. 239. t. 5. f. 8, 



8u$. 



Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 146. 

 Hab. Tasmania. 



Notwithstanding the remarkable form of this insect, it is very 



