136 Ml". O. Thomas oti the 



from the posterior margin of the head as from each other, 

 Antenme much shorter than t!ie licad, inserted low down 

 close to the apex of the clypeus. A short, almost obsok-te, 

 longitudinal sulcus below the anterior octdluP. Pronotum 

 narrow, depressed, and obliquely sloped; mesonotuni narrower 

 than the head, opaque ; scutellum subojiaqiie, with a trans- 

 verse groove at the l^ase. Median segment almost as broad 

 as long, reticulate ; the enclosed area not clearly defined, the 

 marginal carinje being very far apart and merging into the 

 margiii of the segment before the apex, two short carinse from 

 the base not reaching the middle, about twice as far from the 

 marginal carinse as from each other. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining. Second abscissa of the radius more than twice as 

 long as the iirst, and about twice as long as the first trans- 

 verse cubital uervure, a little shorter than the cubital margin 

 of the second cubital cell ; recurrent nervure received close 

 to the apex of the first cubital cell. Stigma less than twice 

 as long as broad. 



Hab. Kuranda, N. Queensland (r«?-?i<??-) : May. 



This is the smallest Australian fossorial wasp which I have 

 seen. I took it from the calyx of a blossom of Enrjenia. 

 The second cubital cell is much longer than in other species 

 of the genus. 



All the types of the species described in this paper are in 

 the British Museum. For the Brisbane species collected 

 by Mr. Hacker I am indebted to Dr. llamlyn-Harris, of the 

 Queensland Museum. 



VI. — The Porcupine of Tenasserim and Southern Siam. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Publisbed by permission of tbe Trustees of tbe British Museum.) 



The National Museum owes to Mr. C Boden Kloss a first 

 typical set of the fine collection of mammals from S.E. Siam, 

 of which he has been giving an account to the Zoological 

 Society. Among these there is a Porcupine, which for want 

 of material for comparison lie has asked me to woik out for 

 him, and 1 have at the same time examined the other speci- 

 mens that the Museum contains from the same region. 



Porcupines from the Burma-Siam area have been some- 



