Mr. R. E. Turner 07i Fossorial Hi/menoptera. Gl 



from each otlier. Head large and broad, thinly covered 

 uiih short pale fulvous pubescence, the cheeks broad and 

 covered with silvery pubescence above the base of the 

 mandibles. Prouotum depressed in the middle ; the cordate 

 space at the base of the median segment coarsely obliquely 

 striated at the base, coarsely reticulate at the apex, with a 

 deep median sulcus. Abdomen opaque; the basal segment 

 a little longer than the posterior femur, the basal two-fifths 

 forming a narrow petiole, the apical portion gradually 

 widened ; the fifth segment clothed with short, pale, fulvous 

 pubescence. Transverse cubital nervure received close to 

 the middle of the radial cell ; recurreut nervure received 

 beyond two-thirds from the base of the cubital cell. Sides 

 of the median segment with very fine vertical strise. 

 Hab. Sydney (i?. C. L. Perkins) ; June 1904. 



Dasyproctiis muiri, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; mandibulis basi, scapo, tibiis apice, tarsisque basi 

 flavis ; pronoto, tcgulis macula basali, scutello macula obliqua 

 utrinque, mesopleuris maculis duabus parvis, segmentisque 

 dorsalibus 2—4 macula transversa basali flavo-ochraceis ; alis 

 hyalinis, cellula radiali margine costali iufusoata. 



Loug. 9 mm. 



Opaque ; clypeus, front, and cheeks clothed with silver 

 pubescence. Clypeus with a low median carina, produced 

 into two small blunt teeth on the middle of the apical margin. 

 Front rather deeply hollowed, Mith an arched carina above, 

 the eyes at the nearest point separated by a distance equal 

 to about one-third of the length of the scape. Head lar<^e, 

 the posterior ocelli a little further from the eyes than from 

 each other, and half as far again from the posterior mar^-in 

 of the head as from each other. A short depression along 

 the inner margin of the eyes before the summit. Second 

 joint of the flagellum about twice as long as the first and 

 almost half as long again as the third. Enclosed area at 

 the base of the median segment finely obliquely striated, 

 punctured between the strise, and divided by a median sulcus 

 which is continued to the apex of the segment, the sides 

 finely obliquely striated. First abdominal segment about 

 one-quarter longer than the posterior femur, the narrow 

 petiole almost as long as the gradually broadened apical 

 portion. Transverse cubital nervure received close to the 

 middle of the radial cell ; recurrent nervure received beyond 

 two-thirds from the base of the cubital cell. 



Hab. Amboina [F. Muir). Ex coll. Perkins. 



