354 Mr. E. E. Turner 07i Fossorial Hymenoptera. 



longitudinal carina, sliallowly triangularly emarginate at tlie 

 apex. Second and third abscissae of the radius subequal, 

 second recurrent nervure received a little beyond one-third 

 from the base of the tliird cubital cell. 



Hah. Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia {G. Arnold), February. 



This may be distinguished from the very similar male of 

 E. rujiceps, Sni., by the slenderer, less swollen first tergite 

 and by the somewhat deeper emargination of the seventh 

 tergite. The form of rujiceps taken at Bulawayo has the 

 apical half of the wings infuscate as in the typical Natal 

 form. E. reticulata, Cam., has the first tergite shaped as in 

 the present species, but the angles of the pronotum are not 

 produced into spines. 



EUs (JMesa) adelogamia, Turn. 



Plesia (Mesa) adelogamia, Turn. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i. p. 50-3 

 (1908). $. 



Specimens of this from S. Rhodesia, Bulawayo and Lonely 

 Mine, have the head, mesonotura, scutellum, and fore legs 

 red, but do not seem to differ otherwise from the typical 

 form. They will probably form a subspecies. 



Subfamily S coming. 



Scoli'a perpolita, sp. n. 



5 . Nigra, nitidissima, sparsissime punctata ; alis nigro-caeruleis. 

 Long. t52 mm. 



$ . Clypeus, front, and vertex smooth and shining ; occiput 

 closely and finely punctured ; a few scattered punctures 

 between the ocelli and the eyes ; a short longitudinal sulcus 

 from between the antennae reaching halfway to the anterior 

 ocellus. Pronotum closely punctured on the anterior margin 

 and clothed densely with erect black hairs, shining and 

 sparsely punctured on the sides ; mesonotum smooth and 

 shining, with scattered punctures at the apex and on the sides, 

 more closely punctured on the anterior margin, an impressed 

 line from the anterior margin not reaching the middle of the 

 segment ; scutellum and postscutellum very sparsely punc- 

 tured j mesopleurte coarsely rugosely punctured and sparsely 

 clothed with long black hairs. Median segment closely 

 punctured, the lateral lobes broadly smooth at the base. 

 First tergite closely punctured and clothed with black hairs, 

 a large smooth space in the middle at the base ; tergites 2— i 



