364: Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hijmenoptera. 



less than halfway between the base of the antennae and the 

 clypens, the transverse carina reaching halfway from the 

 middle of the front to the eyes and produced upwards at its 

 extremities so as to touch the base of the antennae. Front 

 between the eyes as broad as the length of the scape and 

 three basal joints of the flagellum. Head shining, opaque 

 on the frontj closely and very minutely punctured ; thorax 

 shining, finely and rather sparsely punctured; mesopleurae 

 more closely and minutely punctured, with a deep vertical 

 groove below the anterior wings. Median segment shining 

 and almost smooth, with long M'hite pubescence on the sides ; 

 a narrow transverse depression at the base, with about six 

 short oblique carinse on each side, produced in the middle 

 and joining a deep longitudinal groove which reaches to the 

 apex of the segment and is transversely striated. Abdomen 

 smooth and shining, petiolate; the petiole as long as the 

 posterior tibia, with a shallow and narrow groove from the 

 base to the apex ; pygidial area feebly defined, elongate- 

 triangular and finely punctured. First recurrent nervure 

 interstitial with the first transverse cubital nervure, second 

 received by the third cubital cell very near the basal angle ; 

 the second cubital cell is less than half as long as the third 

 on the radial nervure. Cubital nervure of the hind wing 

 originating just beyond the apex of the anal cell. 



Black ; the second, fifth, and sixth abdominal segments 

 entirely and the apical margins of the other segments very 

 narrowly ferruginous red ; spines of the tibiae and tarsi 

 testaceous. Wings hyaline, nervures black, stigma fusco- 

 ferruginous. 



Length 8-9 mm. 



Hab. Shillong, Assam, 6000 feet (Turner). Four 

 specimens. 



Subfamily Ampulicin^. 

 Do/ichurus bipunctatns, Bingh. 



Dolichurus bipunctatus, Bingli. Journ. Liun. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 439 



(1896). S- 

 Dolichimis reticulalm, Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iv. p. 56 (1899). 



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Hab. Burma; Assam ; Sikkim ; Kangra Valley, N.W. 

 India. 



The female differs from taprobance, Sm., in the slightly 

 greater length of the median segment, the lesser development 

 of the lateral spine on the posterior truncation of the median 



