358 i\Jr. E.. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 



tegulisque testaceis, alls lijalinis, veiiis testaceis ; stigmate 

 fusco. 

 Long. 4 mm. 



S- Clypens broad, without lateral teeth; antennae short, 

 all the joints of the flagelluni broader than lono;, except tlie 

 second and eleventh (apical), the eleventh conical. Posterior 

 ocelli more than twice as far from the O'es as from each 

 other ; the front covered with short golden pubescence. 

 Pronotum not much below the mesonotum, gradually sloped. 

 A deep foveolate groove at the base of the scutellum ; median 

 segment with a shallow longitudinal sulcus in which lies a 

 carina, the base of the segment indistinctly obliquely striated. 

 Second cubital cell pointed, receiving the second recurrent 

 nervure at one-third from the apex. 

 Hab, Cairns, Queensland {Dodd). 



Zoyj)luum crassicorne, Okll. 

 Zoyphium crassicorne, Ckll. Canadian Entom. p. 271 (1914). c?. 



cJ . Niger ; pedibus aurantiacis ; clypeo, mandibulis antenuisque 

 pallide ferrugineis ; flagello supra infuscato ; alls hyalinis, venis 

 fusco-ferrugineis, basi pallidis. 



Long. 5 mm. 



cJ . The antennge are more strongly clubbed than in any 

 other known species of the genus ; the hypopygium is not 

 produced into an apical spine as in the other known males. 

 The apex of the abdomen " presents a broad slightly rounded 

 truncation with obtuse but salient angles.^' 



Flab. Brisbane {flacker). 



I have not been able to examine the type of this species 

 closely, but it is quite distinct. Cockerell considers it more 

 nearly allied to Z. doddi than to any other, 



Zoyphium frontale, Turn. 



ZoypMum frontale, Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 496 (1908). 

 c?$. 

 $ . Nigra ; clypeo, fronts scapoque flavis ; flagello, tegulis pedi- 

 busque brunneo-testaceis ; scutello postscutelloque fusco-ferrugi- 

 neis ; aUs hyaUnis, iridescentibus, venis fusco-ferrugineis. ^ 

 Long. 5 mm. 



(J . Clypeus very broad, truncate at the apex, without 

 teeth ; antennae inserted twice as far from each other as from 

 the eyes, all the joints ot the flagellum, except the thick, 

 conical, apical joint, broader tiian long. Posterior ocelli 

 more than twice as far from each other as from the eyes. 

 Pronotum sunk much below the level of the mesonotum ; 



