^Ir. Tl. Vj. Turner on Fo.^.ion'nl llynienoptera, 519 



Guer., and, us I liavo not seen Guciin'.s type, porliaps it is 

 better to use Sniitli's name peuiliii;; lurLlicr intorniation. 



Thynnoides senilis^ Ericlis. 

 Thi/nnut senilis, Erichs. Arch. f. Niiturgt-s. viii. p. 203 (1842). S - 



I have not seen this species from Tasmania, but I have 

 received Victorian specimens aiiswerint^ t(j Erichson's descrip- 

 tion. 1 have no doubt that his record of the sjiocies as 

 Tasmanian is quite correcr. 



Family Scoliidae. 

 Subfamily AyxnoBosciyjB, Turn. 



Anthobosca jlavicornis^ Saixss. 



Cvsila (CttUosHa)J{avicomi», Sause., Qrandidier, Iliat. Mndajjascnr, xx. 

 p. 23.-J (1692). $. 



One female from Tasmania in (he British Museum collec- 

 tion has tlie tibiju fulvous, not blAck as in the typical Aus- 

 tralian form. It is also more sparsely punctured. lOasily 

 distinguished by the orange-yellow antennas. 



Anthohosca confuaa, sp. n. 



? . Black, with sparse white pubescence, the spines of the 

 tarsi testaceous brown. Wings hyaline, nervures black. 



Clypeus shining, s})arsely punctured, raised in the middle 

 into a smooth longitudinal carina, which is broadened 

 towards the apox. Head shining, S[)ar.sely punctured, 

 almost as sparsely and finely on the front as on the vertex, 

 no pubescence on the front. Tliorax shining, very sparsely 

 punctured, median segment shining, very njinutely punc- 

 tured. Abdonien shining, very shallowly and finely punc- 

 tured, with sparse laiger punctures. Sixth dorsal segment 

 opaque, rather strongly punctured at the base, very minutely 

 in tlie middle, the apical margin smooth and testaceous. 

 The apical portion of the hind femora beneath is strongly 

 rounded and broatl, but there is no well-detinod apical lobe. 

 Kadial cell broadly rounded at the apex, almost truncate ; 

 secon I abscissa of the radius scarcely longer than the first, 

 the tliird longer than the first and secund combined. First 

 recurrent nervure received before the middle of the second 

 cubital cell, secund just before the middle of the third cubital 

 cell. Tarsal ungues wiih u blunt basal lobe. 



Lenuth 7-12 mm. 



