Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial ITymenoptera. 483 



round, mesonotum and scutellum more closely and distinctly- 

 punctured, the depression on the median segment broader 

 anteriorly, abdomen finely and closely punctured instead of 

 almost smooth ; the ridge at the apex of the second ventral 

 segment only slightly developed ; first recurrent nervure 

 received near tlie base of the second cubital cell. The yellow- 

 bands are confined to the three basal abdominal segments, 

 being replaced on the others by fusco-ferruginous. The 

 wings are very faintly tinged with fuscous. 



? . Differs as in the male, but the eyes are quite as near 

 together on tlie vertex as in P. nwsei ; the median segment 

 has a large yellow spot on each side near the middle and the 

 pygidial area has a low longitudinal carina and is sparsely 

 but deeply punctured. 



Length, (^ S, ^ d mm. 



Hab. Algeria {Eaton), June 1893 ; c? ? • Aine Kriar, 

 June 1896; ?. 



Ex coll. E. Saunders, in which it was confused with 

 P. lepidus, Klug, from which it differs by the frontal cha- 

 racters, the distance between the eyes on the vertex, and 

 otherwise. Tlie male is of slender build, as in P. nursei, 

 but the female is robust, as in P. lepidus. 



The male is the type. 



Palarus orientalis, Kohl. 



Palarus orientalis, Kohl, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, ixxir. p. 422 



(1884). 



Hab. Ceylon {Kohl) ; Deesa (jVurse). 



Two males and one female taken at Deesa by Colonel 

 Nurse (March and April). 



The female does not differ from the male in colour. The 

 pygidial area is black, strongly longitudinally striated, broad 

 at the base, rather sharply narrowed near the middle and 

 produced into a point at the apex. 



Palarus comberi, sp. n. 



J . Xiger ; cl}-peo, mandibulis (apice excepto), tegulis, macula 

 mesopleurarum, fasciisque interruptis Begmentorum. 1-6 pallida 

 flavis ; pedibus flavo-variegatis ; alls sordide byalinis, nervulis 

 testaceis, Pygidium inerme. 



Long. 13 mm. 



Mandibles with a notch on the outer margin near the 

 middle ; clypeus very broadly rounded at the apex, slightly 



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