338 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoplera. 



Postscript. 



Subfam. AcaiLiN^. 



Apateson alhomaculatum , Fowl. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rliynch.- 

 Hom. i. p. 70, tab. viii. iig. 15 a (1900). 



This genus and species were placed by Canon Fowler, 

 tliougli with reservation, in the Ilicaniidaj. By the structure 

 of the clypeus, which has the lateral margins strongly cari- 

 nate, it seems more naturally to belong to the Achilinte. 



Subfam. Issix^. 



Genus Galbalceca. 

 Galbalceca, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p. 170 (1868). 



Type, G. retifera, Walk. 



Tiiis genus, placed by Walker at the end of the Ricaniidae 

 and after tiie genus JS^ogodina, belongs to the Issinaj and is 

 allied to the gerius Eupi/is, Walk. 



Galbalceca retifera. 



Galbalceca retifera, Walk. Journ. Liuu. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p. 171 

 (1868). 



Hah. New Guinea. 



XL. — Notes on Fossorial Hijmenoptera, — T. 

 By Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



The following new species were presented to the British 

 Museum by Mons. A. Ducke, of the Para Museum. The 

 collection is of interest as containing females of the little- 

 known Thynnid genus Scotana, King, which differ from 

 those of Spilothynnus in the short, broad, and more or less 

 excavated pronotum and in the form of the pygidium. 



Fara. Thynnidae. 

 Spihthynnus remotus^ sp. n. 



^ . Clypeus very slightly produced, narrowly and shal- 

 lowly emarginate at the apex, the angles of the cmargination 

 produced into porrect tubercles, a very small tubercle in the 



