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punctures, the front between the antennse more closely punc- 

 tured, eyes not touching the base of the mandibles ; the head 

 broader than long, strongly rounded at the posterior angles, 

 scarcely convex and rather thin. Pronotum nearly twice as 

 broad as long, the anterior margin almost straight with a row of 

 setigerous punctures, the posterior margin broadly emarginate, 

 finely punctured rugulose. Scutellum and median segment very 

 sparsely punctured ; the median segment nearly as long as the 

 scutellum, broadened from the base and almost vertically truncate 

 posteriorly. The intermediate tibia? and the basal joint of the 

 tarsi are scarcely more thickened than those of the posterior legs. 

 Abdomen very sparsely punctured ; the basal segment truncate 

 anteriorly, sparsely clothed with long grey hairs, the apical 

 margin raised, with a transverse groove before it ; second seg- 

 ment with seven transverse carina? lower at the base than at the 

 apex, including the raised apical margin ; fifth ventral segment 

 longitudinally striated ; pygidium very narrow at the base, almost 

 vertically truncate posteriorly, the surface of the truncation 

 smooth, elongate-ovate, the dorsal plate much shorter than the 

 ventral and produced in the middle at the apex. Pale castaneous 

 brown ; the mandibles, the sides of the head, the pleura?, the fifth 

 abdominal segment, the middle of the second dorsal segment, the 

 base and apex of the third, the extreme apex of the fourth, the 

 middle of the second and third ventral segments, and the femora, 

 black ; pygidium and antennae fusco-ferruginous. 



Length 11-12 mm. 



Hob. Strelley Kiver, N.W. Australia {H. M. Giles). 6 $ in 

 cop. 12 J, 7 $. October. 



" All on two small plants of Grevillea " {Giles). 



A rather distinct species, approaching the leachiellus group, but 

 the female shows some points of resemblance to typical Thynnus, 

 though differing in the absence of concave areas on the head. 



Fam. Scoliidj:. 



Anthobosca strandi, sp. n. 



$ . Clypeus strongly but rather sparsely punctured, trian- 

 gularly flattened from near the base to the apex. Front closely 

 and coarsely, vertex more finely punctured ; head and pronotum 

 thinly covered with long pale fulvous pubescence. Pronotum 

 and median segment very finely and closely punctured ; meso- 

 notum more strongly punctured ; scutellum strongly but sparsely 

 punctured, very broadly rounded at the apex. Abdomen shining, 

 very finely punctured, with sparse, long, grey pubescence on the 

 sides ; the apical dorsal segment thickly clothed with stiff fusco- 

 ferruginous hairs, rounded at the apex. Pleura? very finely and 

 closely punctured, the sides of the median segment smooth and 

 shining at the base. Radial cell broadly rounded at the apex, 

 the second abscissa of the radius twice as long as the first and 

 distinctlv longer than the third ; first recurrent nervure received 



