Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 371 



the postsoutellum almost smooth, the triangular area at the 

 base of the median segment strongly longitudinally striated. 

 First abdominal segment twice as broad as long ; pygidial 

 area transversely rugulose, nearly three times as long as 

 broad, the sides almost parallel, truncate at the apex. Ven- 

 tral segments more sparsely and finely punctured ; second 

 segment without a raised basal area, sixth segment deeply 

 and narrowly emargiuate and ending in two small spines on 

 each side, the outer spine the shortest. First recurrent 

 nervure received at three-fifths from the base of the second 

 cubital cell, second at about one-sixth from the base of the 

 third cubital cell. 



Hab. Kharkur, Nilgiris, S. India {E. E. Green) ; May 

 1910. 



Type presented to the British Museum by the Bombay 

 Natnral History Society. 



This is another species of the small group of which ferox, 

 Sm., may be taken as the typical species. The group hitherto 

 has only been known from Borneo, Sumatra, Siamese 

 Malaya, and Southern Burma. 



Subfamily Bembecin^. 

 Bembex scotti, sp. n. 



cJ . Niger ; clypeo albido, nigro bimaculato ; labro scapoque subtus 

 palhde flavis ; maudibulis basi, carina frontali, linea post oculos 

 pedibusque flavis ; pronoto linea postice, callis humeralibus, 

 mesonoto lateribus et macula parva utrinque in medio raarginis 

 postici, scutello postscutelloque fascia subapicali, segmento 

 mediano fascia arciiata angulisque anticis et posticis, mesopleuris 

 macula magna, segmento dorsaii prime fascia late emarginata, 

 segmentis 2-6 fascia bisinuata, septimo macula magna basali, 

 segmentisque ventralibus basi nigris, secundo macula magna 

 triangulari nigra, flavo-olivaceis ; segmento dorsaii septimo spinis 

 lateralibus ; alis hyalinis, venis fuscis. 



Long. 16 mm. 



(^ . Basal joint of fore tarsi with seven spines, all the tarsi, 

 tibiae, and femora simple, not broadened or serrate. Clypeus 

 not very strongly serrate, a distinct carina between the 

 antennse; eyes almost parallel. Four apical joints of the 

 flagellum excavate beneath, the apical joint longer than the 

 penultimate, slightly curved, rounded at the apex, the ninth 

 to eleventh joints of the flagellum slightly produced beneath 

 at the apex, the sixth joint a little thickened at the apex, the 

 seventh at the base beneath, but not spinose. Second ventral 

 segment Avithout a carina : sixth Mith a delicate carina on 



