34:2 Mr. U. E. Turner on Fossorial Ilymenoptera. 



a])scissa of tlie radius a little longer than the second, cubitus 

 of hind wing originating at a distance from the transverse 

 median nervure equal to two and a half times the length of 

 that nervure. 



Hah. Pakasa, N. Rhodesia (Silverlock). 



This is near melanopyrus, Sm,, but differs in the sculpture 

 o£ the median segment, the absence of the lateral spines on 

 that segment, the greater length of the apical joint of the 

 flageilum, and in the presence of a distinct groove reaching 

 from eye to eye behind the posterior ocelli. 



P.aranysson helioryctoides, Turn. 

 Nys-io?! helioryctoides, Turn. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hidt. (8) ix. p. 416 



■(i9iii). ?; 



"5 . Nigra ; abdomine, femoribus, tibiis tarsisque rufo-ferrugineis ; 



alis fusco-violaceis. 

 iiong. 7 mm. 



?. Clypeus broad, without lateral teeth; second joint of 

 the flageilum equal to the third, apical joint no longer tiiau 

 the penultimate. Posterior ocelli nearly twice as far from 

 exich other as from the eyes. Median segment very coarsely 

 reticulate, tiie apical margin above the posterior truncation 

 transverse, not rounded, and margined by a carina ; the 

 surface oi the posterior truncation striato-punctate, with a 

 small triangular spine on each side near the middle ; the 

 sides of the segment strongly striate. Tliird abscissa of the 

 radius nwre than half as long again as the second. Cubitus 

 of the hind wing originating at a distance beyond the trans- 

 verse median nervure equal to about twice the length of that 

 nervure. 



Hah. Pakasa, N.. Rhodesia [Silverlock). 



Tliis is a true Faranysson, iiaving the mandibles excised on 

 the outer margin and only one spine at the apex of the inter- 

 mediate tibite, ditfeiing in these points from JVysson. The 

 hind coxie have no spine beneath, but there is a small 

 tubercle, 



Paranysson assimilis, Bingh. 

 Helioryctes assimilis, Bingh. Fauna Brit. India, Hymen, i. p. 271 (1897). 



5. Nigra; abdomine ferrugineo ; tegulis, femoribus apice,tibiisque 

 fusco-ferrugiiieis ; tarsis brunneo-testuceis, alis hyaliuis apice 

 pallide iufuscatis. 



(5" , Femiuse similis. 



Long. 6-7 ram. 



