itrtO Mr. Iv. E. Turner 07i Fossorial IJymenoptera. 



cJ . Opaque l)lack ; niniulibles at the base, cly|)eus, poste- 

 rior niar;;in of the pronotuin, tcguloi, a transverse spot on tlie 

 postscutellmii, and the tibiro in front pale yellow ; calcaria 

 >vhitish. AVini;;s hyaline, iridescent, nervures bhick. 



Clypeus broad, almost transverse at the apex. Antennas 

 stout, a little shorter than the thorax and median segment 

 combined. First abdominal segment distinctly, though only 

 slightly, longer than the second, longer than its apical 

 breadth, graduall}' widened from the base. Tliird abscissa o£ 

 the radius as long as the first and second combined, the 

 second longer than the first. The second recurrent nervure 

 is received at two-Hfths from the base of the third cubital 

 cell, the first at the middle of the second cubital cell. 



Length 6 mm. 



Ilah. Eaglehawk Neck ; February. Mt. Wellington, 

 1300 ft.; January. Ulverstone {Lea). 



Somewhat intermediate in the female between imicolor, 

 Sm., and hvvifrons, Sm. From un'icolur it differs in the 

 absence of the strong puncturation of the front and the long 

 hairs rising tiierefrom, also in the position of the second 

 recurrent nervure ; from Icevifrons in the puncturation of the 

 liead, in the broadening of the carina of the clypeus, in the 

 absence of ferruginous colour on the mandibles and anteinife; 

 and from both in the lesser development of the lobe at the 

 apex of the hind femora. 



The male differs from frencht, Turn., in the longer first 

 abdominal segment and tiie yellow clypeus, and from lagardei. 

 Turn., in the same manner as to the first segment and also 

 in the absence of yellow markings on the seventh dorsal 

 segment. 



My record of uniculor, Sm., from Tasmania (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, p. 734, l'J12), applied to this species, but 

 further material has convinced me that it is distinct. 



The female is the type. 



Scolia [Dielis) tasmaniensis, Sauss. 



Elis tasmaniensis, Saiiss. Mem. soc. pbys, & hist. nat. Geneve, xiv. 



p. 61 (18.54). 2- 

 Elis (Dielis) formosa, Sauss. et Sich. Cat. Sp. Gen. Scolia, p. 209 (1864). 



c? $ ; Turn. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (^8) iv. p. 178 (1909) (nee 



Gudrin). 



I have not seen specimens of this common Australian 

 species from Tasmania, but have no reason to doubt 

 Saussure'.s record. It has usually been known under the 

 r\^mt formosa, Guer., which is quite a different Sj)ecies, which 

 does not range south of Cairns in North Queensland. 



