802 IMr. R. K. Turner on Fossorial Uymenoptera. 



in Ast/ie/Kjt/ii/niius, and T. rufoluteus, T. conator, and 

 7. ^?;'oi in Zaspilothynyras . 



Family Scoliidae. 

 Subfamily Mtzininm. 

 Myzine [Pseudomeria] dakarensis, Buyss. 

 Fsettdomeria dakarensis, Buyss. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, p. 340 (1910). $ . 



Specimens from Mogador differ in having the whole of 

 the legs red, instead of only the tibise and tarsi, and the 

 absence of -white hairs on the scape and posterior margin of 

 the head. They may possibly represent a distinct species, 

 but I have not seen specimens of dakarensis, and the differ- 

 ences do not seem sufficient to be of specific importance. 



Hab. Mogador {Escalera). December and March, 



Myzine (^Pseudomeria?) mogador ensis, sp. n. 



c? . Niger, puuctatus, clypei apice, luargiuibus prothoracis, mesonoti 

 macula quadrata, scutelli maculis duabus, postscutelli macula, 

 fasciisquo latis apicalibus segmentorum abdominis ilavis ; pedibus 

 ferrugineis, flavo-variegatis ; segmenti septimi angulis apicalibus 

 acutis. 



Antennse about half as long again as the head, thorax, and 

 median segment combined. Clypeus widely and shallowly 

 emarginate at the apex ; head, thorax, and median segment 

 closely punctured and rather sparsely clothed with long 

 greyish pubescence, a small space below the anterior ocellus 

 smooth and shining ; the -anterior margin of the pronotum 

 transverse. Abdomen shining, finely and shallowly punc- 

 tured, rather robust, the segments not constricted, the basal 

 segment short and almost sessile ; the emargination of the 

 seventh dorsal segment broad, but not very deep, distinctly 

 broader at the apex than deep, the angles at the apex 

 pointed, the dorsal surface of the segment before the emargi- 

 nation with a short median longitudinal groove. Third 

 abscissa of the radius no longer than the second, radial cell 

 rounded at the apex. 



Black; the clypeus at the apex (sometimes entirely), the 

 margins of the pronotum, interrupted in the middle on the 

 anterior margin, a quadrate spot on the mesonotum (some- 

 times obsolete), a spot on each side on the scutellum (some- 

 times obsolete), a transverse spot on the postscutellum, a 

 spot on the mesopleurae below the aiilerior wings, the tegulae, 

 and a transverse apical band^ broadest on the sides, on all the 



