Ml*. R. E. 'runier on Fossorial Ifijmenoptera. 355 



Tlioio is no specimen of this in the British Museum. Ifc 

 is huoer than other species of the genus, thou<^h not so robust 

 as Z. dipteroides. Tlie ferruginous colour spreads more or 

 less on to the median segment and first abdominal segment. 



Zoyphium erythrosoma, Turn. 



Zoyphium erythrosoma, Turn. Proc, Zool. Sue. London, p. 493 (1908). 

 $. 



9 . Nigra, ca^rulescens ; mandibulis basi, clj-peo, scapo, feraoribus 

 apico, tibiis tarsiscjue II avis ; abdoraino flagelloque rufo-testaceis, 

 tegulis fuscis ; abs hyabiiis, venis pallidc t'errugineis. 



Long., 2 8-9 mm., c? 7 mm. 



(S . Feminae sirailis, clypeo nigro. 



? . Clypeus with two minute teeth on each side; antennon 

 inserted more than half as far again from each other as from 

 the eyes, joints 6-11 broader than long, the apical joint stout 

 and conical. Pronotum depressed below the level o£ the 

 mesonotum ; a deep foveolate transverse groove at tiie base 

 of tlie scntellum. Sulcus of the median segment narrow, the 

 carina in it not extending halfway to the apex, a few short 

 oblique stria3 at tiie base of the segment. Second recurrent 

 nervure received just before two-thirds from the base of the 

 second cubital cell, first at about the same distance on the 

 basal side of the first transverse cubital nervure. 



cJ . Hypopygium pointed, with a spine on each side near 

 the apex. 



Iltib. Townsville (Dodd) ; Mackay {Turner) \ Brisbane 

 [Hacker), 



In colour this resembles Serlcophorus hicoJor, though the 

 clypeus in that species is blue-black and the legs the same 

 colour as the abdomen. The first abdominal seoiuent is 

 much moie rounded at the base in this species, the sulcus on 

 the median segment much nairower and shallower, and the 

 neuration different. The median segment in hicolor is mar- 

 gined at the sid-s and has a small striated area above the 

 metapleurte, 



Zoyphium funelre, Turn. 



Sericophorns funebris, Turn. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Tlist. (7) xix. p. ''76 



(1907). $. ■ 



Zot/phiumftoiehn's, Turn. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x. p. 00 (191:^), 



$ . Nigra : mandibulis, pronoto linea interrupta tegulisque flavis ; 



tibiis, tarsis femoribusque apice brunneo-ferrugineis ; alis hya- 



linis, venis fusco-testaceis. 

 Lung. (J mm. 



