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pygidium variable, broad and vertically truncate or contracted 

 and recurved at apex. 



Type Thynnus xanthorrhoei Sm. 



20. T. (Glaphyrothynnus) xanthorrhoei Sm. 



Thynnus xanthorrhoei Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M. vii. p. 28, n.70, 

 1859(5). 



Thynnus planifrons Sm , I.e. p. 46, n.134, 1859(9)- 



IThynnus plebejus Sauss., Reised. Nov. Zool. ii. 1, Hym. p. 123, 

 n.ll, 1867(9). 



Zeleboria xanthorrhoei Sauss., Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxx. p.60, n.10, 

 1869(^9). 



5. Hypopygium deeply and broadly emarginate at the apex. 



9. Pygidium rather broad, vertically truncate posteriorly and 

 longitudinally rugose-striate. 



Hab- -Sydney. 



21. T. (Glaphyrothynnus) contiguus, n.sp. 



£. Clypeus large, convex, very broadly truncate at apex, with 

 a short carina at base; interantennal prominence very widely 

 V-shaped. Head and thorax finely and closely punctured, 

 scutellum subtriangular, rather narrowly truncate at apex. 

 Median segment rounded, very finely and closely punctured. 

 Abdomen elongate, subpetiolate, flattened, shining, shallowly and 

 closely punctured; first segment with a deep sulcus from base not 

 reaching apex; segments 2-4 slightly depressed at base; segments 

 1-4 depressed narrowly on apical margin, with a raised mark 

 emarginate posteriorly before apex. Epipygium broadly truncate 

 at apex; hypopygium small, rounded at apex, without a spine. 

 Black; mandibles, clypeus except a median line on basal half, 

 margins of eyes as high as base of antennae, a line on each side 

 of vertex, margins of pronotum, narrowly interrupted on anterior 

 margin, tegulae, a large curved mark on mesopleurae beneath 

 anterior wings, a spot above base of intermediate coxae, a small 

 spot on scutellum, postscutellum, a large spot on each side of 

 median segment at apex and a small spot on each side of abdo- 

 minal segments 2-5 yellow. Legs, except coxae and trochanters, 



