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the clear rufo-fulvous or apricot colour of the tegulse, and in 

 the male by the red tibiae (wholly red or stained with metallic 

 greenish) and tarsi. The female has pale orange hair-bands. The 

 other specimens all have darker tegulae, and the legs show more 

 dark colour, being better described as dark stained with reddish. 

 The colour of the body seems quite inconstant, the Mackay males 

 varying from green to deep blue. It therefore seems impracti- 

 cable to maintain the variety doddii, Ckll., unless it is considered 

 to include all of the Queensland material excepting the three 

 typical flavoviridis cited above. The female from Victoria is 

 olive green, and has the face narrower than usual. Three 

 females from North-west Australia (French) have very broad 

 faces ; they perhaps represent a distinct race. 



Nomia frenchi, sp. n. 

 (? . Length about 7h mm., expanse nearly 18 ; black, densely 

 punctured, with dull white and black hair ; antennae very long, 

 entirely black ; clypeus black, somewhat bigibbous, shining, with 

 elongate punctures ; labrum and mandibles ferruginous, the latter 

 black at tip ; tongue narrow, moderately long ; hair of face white, 

 strongly plumose, of vertex fuscous, of occiput white ; mesothorax 

 uniformly densely punctured, with a thin short mouse-coloured 

 tomentum, and longer black or dark fuscous hair ; scutellum with 

 long dark hair ; other parts of thorax with pale hair ; basal trans- 

 verse canal of metathoi-ax quite broad, shining, very finely fluted ; 

 apical triangular part of enclosure smooth and shining ; tegulae 

 rather large, bright ferruginous, pointed behind ; wings dusky trans- 

 lucent, nervures and stigma ferruginous ; first r. n. entering apical 

 corner of the narrow second s. m. ; femora black, tibiae and tarsi 

 ferruginous, the middle and anterior tibiae suffused with dusky ; hind 

 femora thickened, smooth, flattened and longitudinally concave be- 

 neath ; hind tibiae thickened, trigonal, the lower margin obtusely 

 angled about the middle ; abdomen black, densely punctured, the 

 hind margins of the second and following segments smooth, the 

 fourth and fifth becoming brownish ; fourth ventral segment emar- 

 ginate ; no ventral tubercles or teeth. 



Hab. Woodend, Victoria, 1909 (French). Froggatt col- 

 lection, 92. A distinct species, readily separated from N. 

 generosa, Smith, by the enlarged hind femora and tibiae, and the 

 dark hair on the thorax above ; and from A^. argentifrons, Smith, 

 by the black flagellum, the red tibiae and tarsi, &c. The 

 abdomen has greyish-white hair-bands on the second and fol- 

 lowing segments, that on the second broadly interrupted, but the 

 basal parts of the third and following segments have long coarse 

 black or dark fuscous hair. 



Nomia satelles, sp. n. 

 (? . Length about 8| mm. ; black, finely and closely punctured ; 

 hair on face dense, shining, with a yellowish-grey tint, on thorax 

 above of the same colour, with scattered dark hairs intermixed, on 



