504 MR. R, E. TURNER OK [May 12, 



tricarinate longitudinally, broadened towards the apex; the 

 eighth segment very small and i^ointed. Anterior tarsi normal, 

 the basal joint with eight long and rather slender spines on the 

 outer margin ; the intermediate tibise not serrate. Third cubital 

 cell broader at the apex than at the base, longer than the second. 

 The apical dorsal segment of the abdomen is broadly rounded at 

 the apex. 



Black ; the mandibles (except at the apex), the labrum, the 

 clypeus (except a broad transverse mark at the base), the outer 

 orbits of the eyes narrowing to nearly the summit, the inner 

 orbits more broadly, not reaching to the summit, a median line 

 on the front broadening between and round the base of the 

 antennas, with a spot on each side of it at its base, the posterior 

 margin and the sides of the pronotum, with a large black spot 

 close to the posterior angles and a smaller one before it, a spot on 

 the mesopleurtB below the anterior wings with a large curved 

 mark below it, the ventral segments of the abdomen (except the 

 base of the fifth and sixth segments and a black spot on each side 

 of the first and of the second at the base), the prosternum, the legs 

 (except the tarsal ungues, a black line at the base of all the tibia^ 

 and on the anterior and posterior femora), pale yellow, A narrow 

 transverse band interrupted in the middle and on the sides on the 

 first abdominal segment, a broader band (curved and narrowly 

 interrupted in the middle) on segments 2-6, and the sides of the 

 apical segment narrowly pale, dull, greenish grey. Wings 

 hyaline; nervures black, ferruginous at the base. Antennai 

 yellow beneath. 



Length 13 mm., exp. 22 mm. 



Hah. Cooktown, Queensland [Turner) ; October. 



Allied to B. 'inusca Handl., but has the clypeus more prominent 

 and more spines on the anterior tarsi. 



Bembex palmata Sm. 



Bemhex palmata Sm. Cat. Hym. B. M. iv, p. 325. n. 38, 1856, 6 ; 

 Handlirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, cii. p. 751, n. 28, 1893, S ? • 



Bemhex tridentifera Sm. Ann. & Mag. IS^at. Hist. (4) xii. p. 298, 

 1873, $ . \ y i y 



Hah. Mackay and Cairns, Queensland {Turner). 



Bembex pectinipes Handl. 



Bemhex pectinipes Handl. Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, cii. p. 875. 

 n. 108, 1893, $ . 



Bemhex palmata Sm. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xii. p. 298, 

 1873, c? (nee Smith, 1856). 



This is not identical with B. saussurei Handl., in my opinion. 

 As in true jKilmata, the labrum has no median longitudinal sulcus 

 at the base, but the anterior tarsi of the female have twelve 

 spines on the outer sides of the first joints and the mandibles are 

 tridentate. In the male the basal joints of the anterior tarsi are 



