. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. RAYMEN 1 197 Arachnids, especially the wolf-spider, Lycosa ramosa, are continually hunting over the colonies, and the web-spinners, too, capture a few of the honey-gatherers, but the ferocious bull-ant is ultimately defeated in mortal combat by honey-bees, and the battle is a thrilling one to observe. The wombat of south-eastern Australia, Phascolomys mitchclli, is common about Bats Ridges, and causes extensive damage by burrowing through the nomiine colonies. In the Murray Valley, periodical flooding by the river drowns myriads of fossori
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. RAYMEN 1 197 Arachnids, especially the wolf-spider, Lycosa ramosa, are continually hunting over the colonies, and the web-spinners, too, capture a few of the honey-gatherers, but the ferocious bull-ant is ultimately defeated in mortal combat by honey-bees, and the battle is a thrilling one to observe. The wombat of south-eastern Australia, Phascolomys mitchclli, is common about Bats Ridges, and causes extensive damage by burrowing through the nomiine colonies. In the Murray Valley, periodical flooding by the river drowns myriads of fossorial bees. Man himself often exterminates entire colonies with his excavations and cultivation of the soil. Family MUTILLIDAE Genus EPHUTOMORPHA Andre, 1903 (Gen. Insect xi, p. 15, 1903.) EPHUTOMORPHA SAGITTIFERA, sp. 110V. (Figure 6.) Type, female—length, 10 mm. approx. Black head and thorax; reddish abdomen. Head large and quadrate, coarsely rugoso-punctate, the punctures almost pyriform; face with a few pale fine hairs J clypeus with anterior margin produced to a sharp rim and an angular structure, with two large median black tubercles between the scapes; vertex very long, coarsely punctured;. Fig. 6: The mutillid and the bee. 1. Adult female mutillid wasp, Ephutomorpha sagittifera. sp. nov. 2. Oblique dorsal view of head. 3. Dorsal view of abdomen of female showing the arrow-shaped mark. 4. Rugoso-punctate sculpture of mutillid head. 5-6-7-8. Four diagrams showing variation in the abdominal faciae of the bee, Nomia australica Sm. 9. Cocoons of the wasp parasite. 10. Spiculae on the posterior tibiae of the mutillid. 11. Apical segment of the antennae of the mutillid Ephutomorpha sagitti- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales; Royal Zoological So
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