Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymetioptera. 317 



XXVII. — Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. — XXYII. On 

 new Species in the British Museum. By ROWLAND E. 

 Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Family ScoliidsB. 

 Subfamily Eliding. 

 Elis bodkini, sp. n. 



$ . iNigra ; clypeo lateribus, orbitis interiiis externisque anguste, 

 fascia transversa inter antennas, pronoto margine posteriore et 

 margins anterioro late interrupto, mesonoto macula qundrata 

 postice maculaque parva utrinque angulis posticis, postscutello 

 fascia, scgmento mediano fascia longitudinali utrinque, meso- 

 pleuris fascia verticali sub alia, segmento dorsali primo macula 

 magna utrinque fasciaque angusta interrupta mediana, segmentis 

 tertio, quarto quintoque fascia basali, sexto macula transversa 

 basali, segmentis ventralibus 2-4 fascia Jata emarginata, quinto 

 fascia mediana, angusta, interrupta, femoribusque intermediis 

 anticisque macula apicali flavis ; alis subh valinis, area radiali 

 late inluscata, venis fuscis ; mandibulis ferrugineis. 

 Long. 13 mm. 



? . Clypeus finely punctured, subcarinate longitudinally in 

 the middle ; front and vertex coarsely punctured, with sparse 

 pale fulvous hairs ; frontal prominence subtuberculate on each 

 side on the inner side of the scape. Thorax closely and 

 rather coarsely punctured, more finely and closely on the 

 pronotum than elsewhere ; median segment subcarinate ia 

 the middle at the base, a triangular space at the base much 

 more finely punctured than tiie rest ot the dorsal surface, the 

 sides of the segment sliallowly obliquely striated. Abdomen 

 shining, tinelj and closely punctured, more strongly and 

 sparsely on the ventral surl'ace ; sixth dorsal segment closely 

 and finely longitudinally striattd. kSecond cubital cell very 

 long, the second abscissa of the radius nearly half as long 

 again as the third; first recurrent nervure received at three- 

 fiftiis from the base of the second cubital cell, second at two- 

 fifths from the base of the third cubital cell. 



J Jab. River Mazaruui, British Guiana ((r. E, Bodkin) ; 

 November 191G. 



This is a smaller species than Jlavopicta, Sm., and has the 

 vertex much more closely pitnctured; the puncturation of the 

 thorax is much closer and finer, the markings are somewhat 

 different, there is no blue gloss on the abdomen, and the 



