•Ills Mr. R. E. Turner oji Fossorial Uyinenoptera. 



Bembcx egens, Ilandl. 

 licmhe.r eijeiis, Ilaiull. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wieu, cii. p._7o3 (1893). J . 



Hub. Australia. 



1 have not seen this species^ wliicli belongs to the same 

 group as Jiaviventris, Sm., but may be distinguished from all 

 other Australian species by the serration of the auterior 

 femora. No definite locality is known. 



Bembex calcarina, Handl. 



Bembex calcarina, Handl. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, cii. p. 754 

 (1893). d. 



H(d). Adelaide. 



This species, of which I have not seen specimens, is very 

 near fiuviventris, Sm., from which it may be distinguished 

 by the interrupted bands on the apical dorsal segments, 

 which are continuous in that species. There is no mention 

 in Handlirsch's description of any abnormal structure of ihe 

 apical joint of the intermediate tarsus, which in Jlaviventris 

 is very long and slender at the base. Ilandlirsch, in his 

 key, refers under calcarina to his figure of an intermediate 

 metatarsus which, according to the plate and description, 

 belongs to eycns. This is evidently a slip, the only one 1 have 

 yet found in the work of that author. 



; Bembex flaviventris, Sm. 



Beinbex Jlaviveyitris, Sua. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xii. p. 299 

 (1873). J$. 



This is very near calcarina, Handl., which may prove to 

 be a synonym or subspecies. 1 have not taken the species 

 mvself. 

 'Hub. Southern Cross, W.A. ; Perth, W.A. 



Bembex palmata, Sm. 



Bemhex palmata, Sm. Cat. Ilym. B.M. iv. p. 325 (185G). S- 

 Bembex tiidentijeva, Sm. Ann. & Mag. Nat. llist. (4) xii. p. 298 

 (1873). $. 



Hab. Mackay, Q. ; Toowoomba, Q. ; Moruya, N.S.W. ; 

 Victoria. 



'ihe male is easily distinguished from flavifrons by the 

 normal clyj^eus and labrum and by the fewer spines on the 

 basal joint of the fore tarsus. It is nearer in structure to 



