3-12 Bfr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenopfera. 



Sti'zus Jiandlirschij Had. 

 Sttzns handlirsehi, Racl. Ilor. soc. ent. Ross, xxvii. p. 62 (1893). 

 Hah. Saraks {BadoszJcowshj) ; Karachi {Comher). 



Sflziis pidcherrimufi, Sm. 



Larm pidcJiei-nma, Siu. Cat. Ilym. B.M. iv. p. 348 (18o<5). $ . 

 Stiziis pu/cherrimus, Haudl, Sitzungsb. Akad. Wisa. Wien, ci. p. 172 

 (1892). 



This belongs to tlie fasciatus group. In tlie male the 

 apical joint of the antennae is no longer than the penultimate, 

 slightly curved. Tlie eyes converge slightly towards the 

 clypeus, making the face narrow; the antennas are separated 

 from the base of the clypeus by a distance not quite equal to 

 the length of the scape. First transverse cubital nervure 

 curved. 



Hah. N. China, Tientsin (F. J/. Thomson); 1 cj , May 

 1906. 



Sli'zus annukilus^ Klug. 



Larra annidata, Ivlug, Symb. Phys. pi. xlvi. fig. 7 (1845). 

 Lurra subcqncalis, AValk. List of Hymen. Egypt, p. 25 (1871). 



Walker's name is, I think, "without much doubt a synon^'m 

 of King's species, which has a wide range in Western Asia. 

 '\Yalker\s record is from Wady Ferran. 



Stizus koenigi^ Mor. 



Stiziis honiqi, Mor. Ilor. soc. ent. Eoss. xxii. p. 28."3 (1888). S 2 ■ 

 Stizus tarjes, Kirby, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) v. p. 135 (1889). $ . 

 Stizus koeniyii, Handl. Sitzanj^sb. Akad, Wiss. "Wien, ci. p, 125 (1892). 



Kirby's name applies to this species, not to rujiventris, to 

 which Handlirsch assigns it with doubt. 



Sti'zus i-iihellufij sp. n. 



2 . Ferruginea ; labro, clypeo, fronte, scaposubtus, pronoto postice, 

 calhs luimeralibus, mesopleiiris macula, tegulis, scutello fascia 

 apicali, postsciitello, segmento mcdiano fascia arcuata, tibiis an- 

 tice, segmentisque dorsalibus quarto quintoque, interdum etiani 

 secundo tertioque, fascia bite interrupta tlavis ; segmeutis dor- 

 sahbus 1-3 apice iiigricantibus ; alis pallide flavo-hyalinis, cellula 

 radiali infuscata, veuis fusco-ferrugineis. 



Long. 19 mm. 



? . Clypeus nearly three times as broad as long, labruin 



