HYMENOFTERA. 



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probable the discovery of the male will prove that it belongs to 

 the genus ^lurus : this observation may serve to direct atten- 

 tion to this probability. 



Genus 4. ANTHOBOSCA. 



Anthobosca, Gner. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 237 (1830). 

 Thynnus, pt., Kluff, Berl. Abhandl 29 (1840-42). 



1. Anthobosca Australasia. 



Anthobosca Australasiae, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 237, Atlas, 

 Ins. pi. 8. fig. 10 ; Mag. Zool. (1842) Mon. Thynn. p. 13. pi. 104 

 (var.). 



Thynnus Australasise, Klug, Berl. Abhandl. (1842) 24. 20 <? . 



Hab. Australia (Port Jackson). 



2. Anthobosca nigra. 



Male. Length 5\ lines. — Black ; slightly shining : head and 

 thorax strongly punctured, the abdomen very delicately so ; 

 covered with a short downy cinereous pubescence, most sparing 

 and shortest on the abdomen. Antenna short and stout, not so 

 long as the abdomen ; the clypeus truncated anteriorly ; wings 

 very shghtly coloured, the nervures black; the anterior tibicc 

 fulvous w ithin, the calcaria pale testaceous ; the abdomen slightly 

 depressed above, the terminal segment with its upper and also its 

 ventral plate rounded at the apex. 



Hab. Australia (Port Phihp). 



3. Anthobosca varipes. B.M, 

 Male. Length 44-6 lines. — Black : the femora, tibiae, and 



basal joints of the tarsi ferruginous, sometimes only the anterior 

 tibiae red within, sometimes entirely black; the calcaria and 

 spines oa the tarsi white, covered with a fine white, short, silky 

 down ; the head, thorax on the sides and beneath with longer 

 cinereous pubescence ; the antennse stout, and shorter than the 

 head and thorax, both the latter closely punctured ; the wings 

 hyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen delicately reticulated. 



Hab. S. Australia (Lower Plenty). 



4. Anthobosca Crabroniformis. B.M. 



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

 and finely punctured ; the clypeus, mandibles, and inner orbits of 

 the eyes yellow. Thorax: a large transverse bilobed macula 

 on the prothorax, a spot on its side at the base of the anterior 



