Mr. K. K. Turner un Fossorial Ilymennptera. 75 



dorsjil segniPtit of the abdomeii more distinctly roundel at 

 the apex. The coloured marks are more ninnerous and more 

 exttiiHive on pajviens'm. In the form of the cly pens t lie prrs"tit 

 species resembles hpulohirtus, Turn., from Qncnsland, but in 

 that species the median segment is much broader, the third 

 abscissa of the radius shorter, as in pnpue7isis, and the 

 recurrent nervures received further from the apex of the cells, 

 'i'he differences are probably of subspecitic rather than of 

 specific importance. 



Cryptocheilus {Priocnemis) wood/o7'di, sp. n. 



? . Clypeus twice as broad as long, slightly convex, porrect 

 and almost transverse at the apex, covered with very fine 

 gulden pnbt-scence, with a few scattered punctures each 

 bearing a long fulvous hair, the apical margin smooth. 

 Head covered with fine golden pubescence ; eyes very slightly 

 converging towards the vertex, where they are separated by 

 tlie Itngth of the third and half of the fourth joints of the 

 ti;igelluni, the posterior ocelli twice as far from the eyes as 

 from each other; first and second joints of the flagellutn 

 combined almost as long as the third and fourth. Pronotum 

 broadly arched posteriorly, postscutellum strongly raised in 

 the middle, subtuberculate, median segment transversely 

 rugosely striated, with a tubercle on each side at the base. 

 Abdomen shining, slightly pruinose, the second ventral seg- 

 ment with a transverse groove. Tarsal ungues with one 

 tooth before the middle. fcJecond abscissa of the radius equal 

 in length to the third, nearly twice as long as the fir.-<t ; 

 second recurrent nervure received just before one-third frouj 

 the base of the third cubital cell, first just before the apex of 

 the second cubital cell. Cubital nervure of the hind wing 

 originating just beyond the transverse median nervure, 

 almost interstitial. 



Ferruginous ; abdomen black ; wings entirely fuscous with 

 bright purple-blue gloss. 

 Length 20-25 mm. 



llab. Kauro, Solomon Islands {Wood/o7-d). 

 Very }Hfi\T ftrvidus, Sm., from Aru. 



JSmith states that tlie clypeus oi firvidus is rounded at the 

 aptx. 'J'his is not the case in a specimen from Dory, New 

 Guinea, identified as feividus ly Smith. This is the speci- 

 men referred to by him (Journ. Prcc. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 120, 

 Suppl. 1860), and has the tarsjil ungues bifid not toothed. I 

 have not seen typical ftrvidus, but if the tarsal ungues are 

 toothed the present species will only stand as a geographical 



