ON AUSTRALIAN FOSSORIAL WASPS. 41 



4. Descriptions of New Fossorial Wasps from Australia. 

 By Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



[Received November 20, 1914 : Read February 23, 1915.] 



Plate I.*) 



Index. 



Systematic : — Page 



Aspidothynims fossulatns, sp. n 55 



Asthenothynnus lilliputianits, sp. n 57 



„ pleuralis, sp. n 58 



„ vicarius, sp. n 56 



Selotliynnus novellus, sp. n 48 



Calopompilus auropilosellus, sp. u 67 



„ cotmectens, sp. n 66 



„ protervus, sp. n 67 



„ xanthochrous, sp. n 65 



Campy lotliynnus lundyce, sp. u 46 



JEirone alboclypeata, sp. n 63 



,, ritfodorsata, sp. n 64 



J£lidothywnusfumatipennis,sj>.\\ 47 



JSncopothynnus spinulosus, gen . et sp. n 52 



G-ymnothynnus carissimns, sp. n 53 



„ (?) mucronatus, sp. n 54 



Loplwclieilus rubrocaudatus, sp. n 51 



Neozeleboria alexandri, sp. n 59 



Phymatothynnus pygidiophorus, sp. n 62 



,, tonsorius, sp. n 61 



Pogonothynnus fidvoliirtus, sjj. n 45 



Psammothynnus rubricans, sp. n 60 



Sierola leeuwinensis, sp. n. (Family Bethylidce) 68 



Tachynomyia ma culiventris, sp. u 63 



Zaspilothynnus dilatatus Sm., subsp. spiculifer, nov... 43 



„ rugicollis, sp. n 43 



„ unipnnctatus, sp. n 41 



The species described in this paper were mostly collected by 

 me on a recent expedition to Australia ; a few have been received 

 from the Queensland and West Australian Museums. 



Family Thynnidje. 



Zaspilothynnus unipunctatus, sp. n. (PI. I. figs. 1, 2.) 



d 1 • Niger ; clypeo linea angusta apicali utrinque, maculaque 

 medianaalbo-flavidulis ; alis subhyalinis, venis fuscis ; mandibulis 

 macula basali flava ; femoribus anticis intermediisque apice, 

 posticis omnino, tibiis tarsisque ferrugineis. 



$ . Nigra ; mandibulis pygidioque f usco-ferrugineis ; segmento 

 dorsali primo oblique stiiato, secundo circa decies transverse 

 striato ; pygidio elongato-ovato, longitudinaliter striate 



Long., c? 15 mm. ; $ 10 mm. 



* For explanation of the Plate see p. 69. 



