Mr. 11. E. TiiriKT on Fossoriul Ilymenoptera. o09 



second segment^ and a spot ou each side of the tliird segment 

 yellow. Wings subhyaline ; nervures fuscous. 



^. Head and thorax subopaque, more closely and finely 

 punctured than in the female, and thinly covered with short 

 greyish pubescence ; abdomen strongly but rather sparsely 

 punctured, the first segment longer than the greatest 

 breadth. 



Black ; the abdomen with strong blue reflections ; clypeus, 

 the scape beneath, a transverse band interrupted in the 

 middle on the scutellum, a band on the postscutcllum, the 

 pronotum, the greater part of the pleurse and the legs yellow, 

 an apical band on segments 1-i, very broad on the first 

 segmt-nt and continued on the ventral surface, brownish 

 orange, ventral surface of abdomen and three apical dorsal 

 segments dull testaceous brown. Wings subhyaline, nervures 

 fuscous; the radial cell very broadly rounded at the apex. 



Hab. Palau Islands {Semper). 



Types in Berlin Museum. 



Family Sapygidse. 

 Sapyga nioraivitzi, sp. n. 



$. Flava, vertice, mesonoto, macula meliali flavn, scutelli post- 

 scutellique marginibus, segment! medialis apice, mesosterno, 

 abdominisque segmentis basi et apice ferrugineis ; antennis 

 pallide ferrugineis, scapo llavo; alis byalinis, venis fuscis ; clypeo 

 margine apicali dentibus binis armato. 



Long. 12 mm. 



? . Clypeus coarsely and closely punctured, with two teeth 

 near the middle of the apical margin. Antennae a little 

 longer than the head and thorax without the median sc"-- 

 ment, the second joint of the flagellum as long as the seaps 

 and slightly longer than the third joint ; the apical joints 

 distinctly longer than broad. Head, thorax, and median 

 segment closely and coarsely punctured ; the metapleune 

 shniing and much more shallowly punctured, not striated. 

 Dorsal segments of the abdomen finely and closely punctured- 

 rugulose. much more finely so on the ventral segments, 

 Tegulse shining, with a few punctures. Submediau cell a 

 little loug( r than the median, third abscissa of the radius 

 more than twice as long as the second, first recurrent nervure 

 recei\ed just before the middle of the second cubital cell, 

 second at about one-eighth from the base of the second 

 cubital cell. 



Pale yellow; the flagellum and the femora above pale 

 ferruginous ; vertex, the area round the ocelli, mesonoium 



