•414 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorlal [Iijmenoplern. 



? . Clypeus producerl into a lai'ge tubercle near the apev, 

 the extreme apical margin nearly transverse, slij^htly bi- 

 sinuate, with a tooth at each angle, produced in the middle 

 into two short blunt teeth. Mandibles uitli a very lar<ie 

 triangular tooth near the middle of the inner margin. Head 

 very large, cheeks broader than the eyes, frontal carina 

 elevated and somewhat arched, continued to tlie anterior 

 ocellus. Antennae se[)arated from the base of the clypeus 

 by a distance equal to about three-quarters of the length (jf 

 the scape. Vertex closely and rather coarsely punctured, 

 the front above the antennse irregularly longitudinally striate, 

 front below the antennae sparsely punctured, clypeus smuotli. 

 Second joint of the flagellum as long as the Hrst and third 

 combined. Thorax closely and rather coarsely punctured, 

 scutellum sh;dlowly longiuidinally depressed in tiie middle; 

 basal area of the median segment rather indistinctly striaited. 

 Abdomen finely and sparsely punctured ; the basal segment 

 more than half as broad again as long; pygidial area narrow, 

 the sides convergent towards the apex, not rounded, the 

 base nearly four times as broad as the apex, which is very 

 narrowly truncate, the sides of the pygidial area with a 

 fringe of fulvous hairs. Second cubital cell nearly as long 

 on the cubitus as the third, the petiole short. 



Hab. Nyasalcind, Morabera district, 4000 ft., 15-19 June, 

 1910 {S. A. Ncave). 



This splendid species is by far the largest of the genus, 

 and in size and colour shows a remarkable resemblance to 

 many species of the genus Synagris. 



S u 1) f a n 1 i 1 y BEMBi:ciy.£. 

 Bembex ftavicincfa, s]). n. 



cf . Flavus ; flagcllo ferriigineo, apice fusco ; macula front ali 

 utrinqi;e supra basin anteiinarum, vertice, mesothorace flavo- 

 biliueato, lineis apice fascia flava conjuiietis, scutello basi. 

 spgniento mcdiuiio basi et linea obliqua utriiique, segraentis 

 dorsalibus apice, sogmentis 1~'3 macula parva uiriuque, scgmeiito 

 ventrali secuudo macvda magna mediaiui, segmentisque 4-G hasi 

 nigris ; segmeuto septimo ferrugineo ; alia liyalinis, venis 

 firrugitieis ; feiiioribus intermediis subtus serratis. 



Long. 20 mm. 



(J. Eighth and ninth joints of the Hagellum short and 

 curved, slightly produced at the apex of the eighth joint 

 beneath, tenth and eleventh joints slightly excavated beneath : 

 a[tical joint a little longer than tiie peiudtiniate, rounded at 



