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THE ANNALS 



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MAGAZINE OF NATIIRAL HISTORY. 



[F'.IOHTIl SKIlIIvS.] 



No. 84. DEOEMBKR I'.^U, 



LVI. — Notes on Fossorial Hijmenoptera. — XIV. 

 By KowLAND E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



On the Mutillidse of Western Australia and Tasmania. 



In these notes on Mutillidse I have confined myself to the 

 female sex, by which the species must mainly be distinguished 

 in the future. jVruch confusion is likely to be caused by 

 descriptions of the males before long scries are available, 

 the ditferences between many of the species in the male sex 

 being exceedingly obscure. Although coloui-differences are 

 of some importance in the more highly coloured metallic 

 species of N.E. Australia, the males of the West-Australiau 

 species can seldom be divided on colour-lines, most being 

 black with more or less white pubescence. Four or five 

 species can be easily distinguished amongst the males 

 collected by me at Yallingup, W.A. ; but, seeing that I took 

 over twenty species of females, it is likely that more species 

 are represented among the males. 



Key to the ]V est- Australian and Tasmaiaan Species of 

 Ephutomorpha. 



22. 



1. With a stout spine or tubercle on each side 

 near the middle of the lateral uiargiu 

 of the thorax 2. 



Ann. iC- Ma(/. S. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xiv. 30 



