340 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Ilymennptera. 



excej-)t ''clypcus medio productus, apice reflexus/^ which doe.? 

 not seem applicable to the present species. 



Scotcena velusta, sp. n. 



(J . Cljpeus very slightly produced and semicircularly 

 emarginate at the apex, produced on each side of the emargi- 

 nation into a long acute spine. Head finely and very closely 

 punctured, the interantennal prominence deeply emarginate 

 at the apex. Antennae inserted a little nearer to each other 

 than to the eyes, as long as the thorax and median segment 

 combined, the apical joints very feebly arcuate beneath. 

 Posterior ocelli more than twice as fur from the eyes as from 

 each other ; the posterior angles of the head only slightly 

 rounded. Pronotum narrower than the head, very minutely 

 punctured, the anterior margin raised, with a shining groove 

 behind it. Mcsonotum, median segm nit, and dorsal segments 

 of the abdomen very closely and rather deeply punctured, 

 the scutellum a little more sparsely, the first dorsal segment 

 and the ventral surface of the abdomen sparsely and shallowly 

 punctured ; scutellum convex, broadly rounded at the apex ; 

 median segment rounded, a little longer than broad. Abdo- 

 men elongate, tapering to the base ; the first segment 

 narrow^ with a sulcus from the base nearly reaching the apex ; 

 the segments not constricted at the base ; the apical segment 

 rugose. Hypopygium short, not very narrow, reaching a 

 little beyond the dorsal segment and rounded at the apex. 

 Third abscissa of the radius fully iialf as long again as the 

 second, the second recurrent nervure is received by the third 

 cubital cell at one-fifth from the base. 



Opaque black ; a spot on each side at the apex of the 

 clypeus, the anterior margin of the pronotum interrupted in 

 the middle, a spot on each side of the postscutellum, and a 

 small spot on each side of the four basal abdominal segments 

 yellow. Tegulee, tibia^, and tarsi^ sometimes also the femora, 

 testaceous brown. Wings pale fupco-hyaline, darkest along 

 the costa, nervures fuscous, stigma testaceous. 



Length 14-16 mm. 



? . Head nearly twice as broad anteriorly as long, strongly 

 rounded at the posterior angles, shining, sparsely and 

 minutely punctured, with a few larger scattered punctures. 

 Pronotum much narrower than the head, more than half as 

 broad again as long, strongly carinate longitudinally in the 

 middle, concave on each side of the carina, the lateral mar- 

 gins raised and emarginate near the posterior angles, which 

 are subtuberculate, the median carina strongly broadened 



