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and tliorax is short aud rather sparse ; the dorsulum and 

 scutellum bare^ smooth aud shining ; the pleurae indistinctly 

 striated. 



Hub. Port Darwin [F. P. Dodd). Ex coll. Perkins. 



This is very near S. ruyifer, Kohl, of ■« hic-h it may prove 

 to be a local form. It diHers, however, in the colour of tlie 

 legs aud wings and also in the number of strife on the 

 median segment. I have not seen typical specimens of 

 ruyiftr. 



Subfamily Bembecix^. 

 Bembex latifasciata, sp. n. 



J. Flavo-ochraceus ; flagello supra fusco, infra tcstaceo ; vertice, 

 mesonoto lineis tribus, linea mediana apicem hand attingeute, 

 scutello basi, segmento mediano basi, segmeuto dorsali primo 

 apice et macula parva utrinque, 2-6 basi et apice, basi bilobatis 

 septimoque basi nigris ; alls hyalinis, venis ba&i testaceis, apice 

 fuscis. 



Long. 15 mm. 



(J. Labrum not grooved, clypeus strongly convex ; front 

 distinctly carinated between the antennae. Apical joint of 

 the flagellum no longer than the penultimate, rather strongly 

 curved and truncate at the apex; joints 9-11 excavated 

 beneath, the eighth joint with a small spine beneath. Eyes 

 almost parallel on the inner margin. Anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora not dentate ; anterior tarsi not dilated, with 

 seven spines on the outer margin of the basal joint ; basal 

 joint of intermediate tarsi not dilated. First ventral seg- 

 ment with a stout, blunt tubercle at the base, second with 

 a compressed prominent tubercle, sixth unarmed ; seventh 

 dorsal segment broadly rounded, shallowly subemargiuate at 

 the apex. 



? . Sixth dorsal segment very narrowly rounded at the 

 apex, black, with a yellow spot on each side ; second 

 ventral segment rather closely punctured over the whole 

 surface. 



Hah. N.W. Australia, Strelley Ptiver and Ptoeburne. 



Subfamily Ntssokinah. 



Gorytes perkinsi, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; clypeo, fronte sub antennis scapoque flavis ; flagello, 

 pronoto, scutello, postscutello, segmento mediano macula basali 

 utrinque, segmentis abdominalibus primo sextoque, dorsalibus 

 tertio, quarto (basi excepta) quintoque, pedibusque aurautiacis ; 

 alis fiavo-hyalinis, apice leviter infumatis. 

 Lous:. 22 mm. 



