248 3Ir. H. E. Turner on Foi^sorial Hymenoptera. 



XXTV. — Notes on Fossm'i'dl Hi/menoptera. — XX. On nome 

 Larriiije in the British Museum. By lioWLAN D E. TURNEK, 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Key to the Australian S/iecies of Liris. 



Wings yellow, with a pale fuscous margin ; 



legs feiTuginons ; the whole dorsal sur- [subsp. magnifica, Kohl. 



face clothed with golden pubescence . . L. hcemoii-hoidalis, Fabr., 

 Wings pale fuscous; legs black; without 



golden pubescence L. nielania, Turn. 



Liris melania, sp. n. 



$ . Nigra, subopaca ; segmento mediano opaco, delicatissirae trans- 

 verge striate ; area pygidiali setosa, aureo-pilosa ; alls fusco- 

 hyalinis, venis fuscis. 

 Long. 17 mm. 



$ . Clypeus finely and closely punctured, with a deep 

 depression in the middle of the apical margin. Second joint 

 of the flagelliim equal to the third, twice as long as tlie first. 

 Eyes toucliing the posterior margin of the head, separated on 

 the vertex by a distance not quite equal to the length of the 

 second joint of ti»e flagellum. Cheeks and the base of the 

 mandibles clothed with fine silver pubescence. Pronotum 

 not reaching the level of the mesonotum, higher in tlie 

 middle than at the sides. Thorax subopaque, minutely punc- 

 tured ; median segment about equal in length to the meso- 

 Tiotum, very finely and closely transversely striated, with a 

 longitudinal sulcus from the base to the apex, the sides of 

 the dorsal surface and of the posterior truncation more coarsely 

 striated. Abdomen subopaque, microscopically punctured ; 

 obscure apical bands of fine whitish pubescence, broadly 

 interrupted in the middle on the tiiree basal dorsal segments. 

 Pvgidial area subtriangu'ar, narrowly rounded at the apex, 

 shaped as in L. gibhom, Kohl, clothed with fine golden 

 pubescence, and with numerous black setae. Second ventral 

 segnient swollen near the base as in Notogonia, with a carina 

 from the base to the middle. Second abscissa of the radius 

 as long as the third, the two recurrent nervures received very 

 close to each other. 



I-lah. (!airns district, Q. [collected hy F. P. Dodd and 

 presented hy .T)r. Perkins). 



Tliis wa.s recorded by me as L, ducalis, Sm. (Trans. Ent. 



