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Nomia hippophila, new species. 



Male. — Length about 7.5 mm. ; dark greenish, with dull white hair ; head 

 and thorax very densely and minutely rugoso-punctate, the front and meso- 

 thorax dull, the clypeus more shining, its lower margin broadly yellowish- 

 testaceous ; face with much white hair, not entirely hiding surface ; eyes con- 

 verging below ; mandibles reddish ; hair of vertex brownish, contrasting with 

 the white of occiput : antennae long, flagellum dark brown above, pale reddish- 

 yellow beneath ; area of metathorax plicate ; tegulse rather large, shining rufous ; 

 wings nearly clear, iridescent, nervures and stigma dull reddish ; lower section 

 of b. n. strongly bent ; legs red-brown, the femora and tibiae more or less 

 greenish-metallic ; hind femora and tibiae swollen, but not distorted ; abdomen 

 minutely roughened, the depressed posterior portions of the segpments (ex- 

 tremely large on 3 and 4) shining ; second and following segments with thin 

 white hair-bands, and anterior to these some dark hair, only noticed in lateral 

 view. 



Habitat. — Port Philip, Victoria {C onion). Berlin Museum, 

 2242. Less robust and less metallic than A'', fiavovhidis. 



Nomia victoriae, new species. 



Female. — Length about 8 mm., robust, black, with a moderate amount of 

 white hair (abundant and glittering on hind legs) ; abdomen with a little patch 

 of white or yellowish-white hair on each side of first two segments, some fine 

 white hair at extreme base of third (overlapped by second) ; a broad apical 

 white hair-band, more or less suffused with pale, and slightly interrupted in 

 the middle, on third segment ; a broad entire strongly orange band on fourth ; 

 and the fifth segment ferruginous, with pale orange hair. Mandibles reddish 

 subapically ; tongue dagger-shaped, not very long ; face broad, finely sculptured ; 

 clypeus rather depressed in the middle, with the subapical region on each side 

 of the middle a little elevated and shining ; hair of vertex long and brownish ; 

 flagellum obscure ferruginous beneath ; mesothorax rather shining, feebly sculp- 

 tured, and with scattered distinct punctures ; mesothorax and scutellum with 

 scattered erect fuscous hairs ; area of metathorax plicate ; tegulae quite large, 

 piceous ; wings slightly dusky, nervures and stigma fuscous, the latter rather 

 reddish ; legs black, hair on inner side of tarsi pale fulvous ; hind spurs red- 

 brown. This species is to be compared with A'', gracilipes Smith, but the 

 abdomen is not blue, although in one specimen the first two segments have 

 a faint greenish tint. The ovate spots of white pubescence found on the hind 

 part of the mesothorax in gracilipes are not present in the new species. 



Habitat. — Ararat, Victoria (RoUe). Two in Berlin Museum. 

 Saropoda bombiformis Smith. 

 Australia (Roth). 



Anthophora preissi, new species. 



Female.- — Length about 15 mm., very robust, width of abdomen 7 mm. or 



