58 Mr. F. E. Turner on Fossoriul Uymenopteva. 



Clj'^peus widely emarginate at the apex; eyes distinctly 

 converging towards the clypeus. AnteHuse slightly thickened 

 towards the apex ; the scape shorty the second joint of the 

 flagellura as long as the third and fourth combined. Front 

 clothed with short fulvous-brown pubescence, slightly con- 

 cave, with a distinct median sulcus reaching the anterior 

 ocellus. Posterior ocelli a little further from each other 

 than from the eyes. Thorax stout, opaque, sparsely punc- 

 tured ; the triangular area at the base of the median 

 segment well defined, smooth and shining, with a deep 

 median sulcus. Tibise stout, spinose ; pul villi rather large ; 

 basal joint of anterior tarsi with five long spines. Abdomen 

 stout, strongly narrowed to the extremities, a little longer 

 than the head, thorax, and median segment combined, opaque, 

 the ventral surface slightly shining and sparsely punctured. 

 Pygidial area gradually narrowed from the base and rather 

 broadly rounded at the apex. Both recurrent nervures 

 received by the second cubital cell, the first before one- 

 quarter from the base, the second at about one-sixth from 

 the apex, the cubital ner\ure sharply bent upward from the 

 junction of the first recurrent nervure to the base of the 

 second cubital cell ; first abscissa of the radius about equal 

 in length to the third, and four times as long as the second; 

 first transverse cubital nervure abruptly bent outwards very 

 near the cubital nervure, and branching inward at the bend, 

 the branch at first clearly defined and then continued as a 

 faint scar to the base of the stigma. 



The median segment is striated on the sides near the apex 

 and marked with dull ochraceous. 



Hah. Cairns, Queensland {F. P. Dodd). Ex coll. Perkins. 



This fine species is allied to G. cUiatus, Handl. In colour 

 it resembles species of the genus Abispa, and is as large as 

 small specimens of that genus. 



Genus Clytemnestra, Spin. 



I agree with Ashmead in considering that this genus is 

 sufficiently distinct from Gorytes. Though almost entirely 

 American, the following Australian species should be in- 

 cluded : — 



1. a duboulmji, Turu. Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 496 (1908) {Gorytes d.). 



2. C. samjuimlentus, Tuni. Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 497 (1908) {Gorytes s.). 



3. C. lucidulus, Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 498 (1908) {Gorytes I.). 



These species, however, differ from typical Clytemnestra 

 and approach Miscothyris, Sm. 



