0-4 ^Ir. lu E. Turner on Fossorial llymeiioptern. 



Aphelotoma tusmanica, Wcstw. 



Aphvlotnmn fn.onanica, Westw. Trans. Ent. Sue. Loud., Joiirn. of Proc. 

 p. 13 (1840). 2- 



Hob. Tasniaii's Arch : February. Eaglehawk Neck ; 

 ^larcli. Victoria. 



Taken running on dead Eucah/ptusAogs in which ohl 

 beetle-holes were numerous. Althougb of considerably 

 .smaller size, this wasp bears a considerable resemblance to 

 ants of the genus Myrmecia, es|)ecially M. esuriens, Fal)r , 

 and another species with red legs, Myrmecia ]iilosuia, Sra. 

 When alarmed tl;e wasp often picks up a fragment of dead 

 stick or leaf, which it carries in its mandibles, thus increasing 

 the resemblance to the ant. AjjIieJotoma auriventris. Turn., 

 a species with a uide range in thesnithern half of Australia, 

 also bears a considerable likeness to Mijrinecia nuindlbtilaris, 

 Sra., though the difference in size is very great ; I have 

 never seen this species or any of the Queensland species of 

 Aphelotoma carrying anything in their mandibles. The 

 'I'asmanian species is considerably larger than any other of 

 the genus. 



I have not seen males from Tasmania or females from 

 ^'ictoria. and it is possible that the Victorian males belong 

 fo a different species, the pronotum being more coarsely 

 rugf)se and the first recurrent nervure interstitial with (he 

 first transverse cubital nervure. 



Aphelotoma auriventris, Turn. 



Aphelotoma auriventris, Turu. Ann. & Ma"'. Nat. Hist. (7) xix. p. 2(^)9 

 (1907). 



Hob. Gr;impian Hills, Victoria : Kangaroo Island, S.A. ; 

 Yallingup, S.W. Australia. 



Aphelotoma affinis, Turn. 



Ajihehtoma affinis, Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. .341 (1010). 5 • 



This is nearer to striaticollis than to any other species, 

 but may be distinguished by the colour of the clypeus and 

 antennae and by the somewhat finer sculpture of the j)ro- 

 notum and median segment. It is possible that it may 

 prove to be a variety of that species. 



