'Mi: 11. E. Turner on Fossorial llymeuoptera. 4S1 



Palarus hetus^ King. 



Palarus latus, Klug, Symbol, physic. (1845). J 5, 



Larra annnlata, Walker, List of Hymen, in Egypt, p. 2o (1871). c?. 



Stizus toalkeri, Handl. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wieu, ci. p. 177 (1892). 



A male specimen, evidently named by Walker, is in the 

 British Museum. It answers well to Walker's description, 

 and may possibly be the type. 



Palarus fahius, Nurse. 

 Palarus fahius, Nurse, Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xv. p. 6 (1903). 



Very near Jcetus, Klug, but tiie depression on the middle o£ 

 the median segment is narrower and not so deep, and the 

 transverse ridge on the second ventral segment of the male is 

 much less developed. The scutellum in the male is yellow, 

 as in the female. 



Palarus nursei, sp. n. 



S . Niger ; mandibuHs, clypeo, pronoto liuea interrnpta, callis 

 humeralibiis, macula ante alas, tegulis, mesopleuris macula 

 magna, postscutello, segmentis dorsalibus fasciis transversis, pedi- 

 busque flavis ; segmento veutrali secuudo apice cristato, ano 

 tridentato. 



$ . llari simillima, segraeutis abdominis apice fusco-ferrugineis, 

 area pygidiali ferruginea. 



(J . Clypeus smooth and shining, very broadly rounded at 

 the apex ; a narrow longitudinal carina between the antennse, 

 obscurely continued on the front, not quite reaching tlie 

 anterior ocellus. Mandibles strongly notclied on the lower 

 margin. Antenna3 thickened towards tiie apex, the second 

 joint of the tlagelluni distinctly longer than tlie third, joitits 

 8-13 broader than long. Anterior ocellus large and round, 

 the posterior ocelli much sn]aller and oval. Eyes separated 

 on the vertex by a distance not quite equal to the length of 

 the second joint of the flagellum. Front and mesoiiotum 

 minutely punctured and covered with very fine whitish 

 pubescence. Scutellum shining and almost smooth, with a 

 strongly depressed line of deep punctures at the base; meso- 

 pleurse shining and very sparsely punctured. Median seg- 

 ment with a deep and rather broad longitudinal depression in 

 the middle, obliquely striated. First dorsal segment concave 

 at the base, with an elevated carina on each side ; first 

 ventral segment with two small tubercles near the middle, 

 beyond which the segment is strongly depressed to the apex; 

 Ann, d) Mac/. X, Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. vii. 32 



