Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial llymenopteva. 343 



Fam. Scoliidae. 

 Anthubusca bipustulatay 8[). ii. 



(^ . Clypeus very slightly produced and very sliallowly 

 subemarfrinate at the apex, very minutely punctured. Head 

 and thorax very finely and closely punctured, more sparsely 

 on the vertex and scutellum, a shining, delicately impressed, 

 longitudinal line on the front. Eyes very broadly and 

 shallowly emarginate on the inner margin, the posterior ocelli 

 a little further from the eyes than from eacii other. An- 

 tennae very stout, tapering towards the apex, shorter than 

 the thorax and median segment combined, the second joint of 

 the flagellum broader than long, scarcely more than half as 

 long as the third joint. Median segment very closely and 

 minutely punctured, depressed on the sides round the stigma, 

 as long as broad, convex. Abdomen very slender, tapering 

 to the extremities, finely shagreened, the apical segment 

 punctured, the first segment longer than the second, slender 

 at the base. Apical ventral segment rounded and ciliate. 

 Tarsal ungues bidentate, the pad large. 



Black; the basal half of the mandibles, the clypeus, a spot 

 on each side near the middle of the pronotura, a spot on the 

 posterior margin of the mesonotum, a minute spot near the 

 apex of the scutellum, a bilobed spot on the postscutellura, 

 and the tegulje pale yellow. Legs ferruginous in the type, 

 but very variable in colour; the yellow markings on the 

 mesonotum and scutellum are also variable. 



First ab.scis3a of the radius more than half as long as th^ 

 second, the two together shorter than the third. Second 

 recurrent nervure received close to the middle of the third 

 cubital cell. 



Length 7-1.3 mm. 



Ilal). Barbacena, Minas Geraes (A. Ducke). Seven 

 specimens. 



Very near albomacuiata, Sm., but in that species the second 

 recurrent nervure is received at one-third from the base of 

 the third cubital cell, not in the middle, and the abdomen is 

 not quite so slender. It is more distinct from antennita, Sm., 

 and will probably prove to be the male of bim iculata^ Perty. 

 The second recurrent nervure in bimnculata is received in the 

 middle of the third cubital cell as in this species. 



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