286 ^Ii'. R. E. Tiuiicr on Fossorial llyinenoptera. 



and two-tliirds o£ the middle tibiae the same colour; pubes- 

 cence on Icfis black ; fore coxne covered with ycUowisli-grcy 

 tomcutuin and with long black hairs. JViiif/a clear, the 

 veins brown, the cross-veins all shaded narrowly with brown, 

 stigma yellowish brown ; appendix present. 



Tabanus qentUis, Erichson, Archiv. f. Naturgesch. viii. 

 p. 271 (1842). 



This species by reason of its spotted wings is more easily 

 identified than the other two species by the same author, and 

 has been found by Mr. Arthur White in Tasmania, who has 

 kindly given a specimen to the Brit. Mus. Coll. 



My ne^y species, Tabamis froyyatti, is nearly related to T. 

 gentil'is, both species having the same-sha|)ed forehead, ([uite a 

 distinctive feature in them. '^I'his species is distinguished from 

 my species by its reddish antennse and legs ; the palpi are 

 also lighter in colour, and the hairs on the face and the 

 beard are more largely white than black. The chief differ- 

 ence is in the wings, which in this species are more distinctly 

 spotted, all the cross-veins on the upper part of wing having 

 dark spots round them. 



XXXTIT. — Notes on Fossorial HijmenojJtera. — XVII. On new 

 Ethiopian Species. Bv Rowland E. Tuknkk, F.Z.S,, 

 F.E.S. 



Family Crabronidse. 



Subfamily Stizinje. 



Sphecius milleri, sp. n. 



$. Xigra ; capite, anterinis, pronoto, mesonolo latcribus, tegulis, 

 scutello pedibusque ferrugineis : clypeo, segmentoque i)rimo 

 secundoijue dorsalibus macula magna utrinque flavis, segiiu-nti 

 sccundi maculis stiigam iiigram transversam includeutibus ; alls 

 flavc-lijalinis, venis ferrugiueis. 



Long. 25 mm. 



? . Clypeus with a large, flattened, rather indistinctly 

 margined, subtriangular area in front ; eyes converging 

 towards the clypeus, posterior ocelli rather more than twice 

 as far from each other as from the eyes. Antennae inserted 

 as far from each other as from the eyes, the scape short, 

 about half as long as the second joint of the flagellum, 



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