Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Ilymenoplera. 251 



Lurra sceleslOj Turn. 

 Lana scfleda, Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 474 (1908). $ . 



I doubt if this is more than a variety of L. femorata. I 

 can find no irooil structural disiiiiction, and the colour of the 

 legs seems to vary, intermediate forms occurring. 



Larra erythropyga, sp. n. 



$ . Nigra ; scg^entis abdominalibus lateribus albo-pilosis ; seg- 

 mento sexto, plerumque etiam in parte quinto, rufis ; tegulis 

 testactjis ; aUs fuscis. 



Long. 17-20 mm. 



? . Clypeus opaque, finely and closely punctured, the 

 apical marjiin tran.sverse; front above the base of the an- 

 tennfe shining and concave, the marginal grooves very 

 distinct, the upper part of the front and the vertex opaque, 

 finely and closely punctured. Second joint of the flagellum 

 twice as long as the first and about half as long again as the 

 third; eyes separated on the vertex by a distance slightly 

 exceeding the. combined length of the two basal joints of the 

 flagellum. Tliorax Hnely and closely punctured, opaque, the 

 niesopleurpe shining and less closely punctured. Median 

 segment longer tlian the mesonotum, granulate, with a low 

 median carina not reaching the apex, the posterior slope 

 finely rugulose and divided liy a longitudinal sulcus. Abdo- 

 men shining, almost smooth : pygidial area triangular, 

 almost smooth, the sides nearly half as long again as the 

 basal breadth. Fore tibiae with a row of spines on the outer 

 margin. Third abscissa of the radius a little longer than the 

 second, which is equal to the first ; the second recurrent 

 nervure received close to the middle of the cubital margin of 

 the second cubital cell, very narrowly separated from the 

 first recurrent nervure. 



ilab. Nyasaland, S. W. of Lake Chilwa ; January 191J: 

 (^S. A. Neave). 



Superficially this species strongly resembles the North- 

 American L. nwUs, Fabr., but has the pronotum raised 

 much higher than in that insect. 



Notogonia aiistralis, Sauss. 



Tachytes anstralis, Sauss. M6m. soc. phvs. & hist. nat. Geneve, xiv. 



p. 19 (1854). 

 Ldi-rada auatralis, Sauss. M^lang. Hymen, i. p. 69 (1854). 

 Larra australis, Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 474 (1908). 



This species should be placed in Notogon'm, having the 



