^Ir. R. E. Turner on Fossoricd Ffi/menoptera. 349 



the radial norvuie, receiving tlio second recurrent nervure at 

 oiie-qiiarter from its apex, the first recurrent nervure received 

 nearly twice as far from the apex of tlie first cubital cell. 



c? . As in the female; the teeth on the clypeus a little 

 smaller; aiitennaj twelve-jointed, the apical joint obliquely 

 truncate on the outer side ; the joints of the flugellum not 

 s|)inose beneath as in viri'dis; tubercles of the scutellum and 

 first dorsal segment as in the female. 



JJal>. Australia {Smith) ; Ea^lehawk Neck, S.E. Tas- 

 niau'a (^2\irner) ; Kalaniunda, S.W. Australia [Turner). 



Four females taken in Tasmania and one male in S.W. 

 Australia, 'iliis species appears to be scarcer than S. vin'dis. 



SericophorxiH viridls, Sauss. 



Tacky rrhostus virklis, Sauss. Mem. soc. pliys. & hist. uat. Geneve, xiv. 



p.:i5 (1854). 9. 

 Sericophorus viridis, Sauss. M^lang. Hymen, i. p. 69 (1854). 



9 . Cyanea ; abdomine viridi-aeneo, normumquam cyaneo ; clypeo, 

 antennis, tegulis, segmento abdominal! sexto pedibusque rufo- 

 testaceis ; alis hyalinis, venis nigris. 



S . Femimc similis ; femoribus basi nigris, segmentis abdominalibus 

 duobus apicalibus rufo-testaceis ; clypeo nigro. 



Long., 9 9-11 mm., J 7 ram. 



? . Clypeus broadly subtruncate at the a|)ex, with two 

 small, but distinct teeth on each side of the median lobe, 

 depressed from near the base and forming a large broad 

 triangle. Antennae thickened towards the apex, the apical 

 joint very stout, as broad as long and obliquely truncate on 

 the outer side; the eighth, ninth, and tenth joints of the 

 flagellum broader than long. Posterior ocelli less than twice 

 as far from each other as trom the eyes. Front convex in 

 the middle, with a very shoit longitudinal sulcus halfway 

 between the anterior ocellus and the base of the clypeus. 

 Thorax closely and finely punctured, the pronotum very 

 steeply sloped, the mesonotum with two parallel longitudinal 

 grooves reaching from the anterior margin to the middle; 

 scutellum without a tubercle, median segment with a broad 

 deep groove from the base to the apex. First dorsal seg- 

 ment shorter tlian in chalt/ba-us, broad and vertically truncate 

 anteriorly. Secot)d cubital cell almost pointed on the 

 radius, receiving the second recurrent nervure at one-quarter 

 from the apex, the first recurrent nervure received at nearly 

 twice the distance from the apex of the first cubital cell. 



(J . AntenniE stouter at the apex than in tlie female, 

 twelve-jointed, the third to sixth joints of the flagellum each 

 wiih a small spine or tubercle beneath. 



