Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorkd Hymenoptera. 351 



XLI. — Notes on Fossorial Ilymeyioptera. — XXX. On neio 

 Ethiopian Scoliidie. By Eowland E. Turnee, F.Z.S., 

 F.E.IS. 



Family Scoliidae. 



Subfamily Eliding. 



Myzine aterrima, sp. n. 



S . I^iger, punctatus ; capite thoraceque sparse griseo-pubescenti- 

 bus ; tarsis bruuneis, intermediis posticisque articulis tribus 

 intermediis, apice excepto, albido-flavidulis ; alls fuscis. 



Long. 12 mm. 



S . Clypeus widely and very shallowly emarginate at tlie 

 apex, closely punctured. AntenuEe stout, about as long as 

 the thorax and median segment combined, the terminal joint 

 truncate at the apex, shorter than the penultimate ; none 

 of the joints arcuate beneath. Front punctured-rugose, the 

 antenna! tubercles large and blunt, vertex strongly punctured. 

 Eyes widely emarginate on the inner margin. Thorax and 

 median segment closely and coarsely punctured ; the pro- 

 iiotum scarcely as long as the mesonotum, the anterior margin 

 straight. Abdomen rather tinely and very closely punctured ; 

 the first tergite siiorter than the second, rounded at the ante- 

 rior angles, constricted at the apex ; tergites 2-6 slightly 

 constricted at the base, at least twice as broad as long ; 

 seventh tergite coarsely rugose at the apex, a narrow sulcus 

 from the base reaching to the base of the apical slit, which is 

 narrow and very deep, the lobes of the tergite on each side of 

 the slit broadly truncate at the apex. Sleruites more coarsely 

 punctured than the tergites ; the apical aculeus very strongly 

 recurved. Second abscissa of the radius a little longer tlian 

 the third ; second recurrent nervure received at about one- 

 third from the base of the third cubital cell. 



Hah. Victoria Falls, Zambesi (Thompson), December. 

 From the Ehodesia Museum. 



Very distinct in colouring from others of the genus. The 

 only other black Ethiopian species are Uugii, Westw., in 

 which the wings are hyaline and the structure of the antennae 

 and anal segments very different, and stigma, Turn., which is 

 much smaller and differs in many important points. In the 

 form of the abdomen, especially in the truncate lobes of the 

 seventh tergite, this is closely allied to semirufa, Gerst. 

 {=cingulata, Gerst.), but the colouring is very different and 

 tlie sculpture is much coarser in aterrima. 



