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67), was observed to agree with L. venustus, except that it was 

 larger (length fully 12 mm.), and, to my astonishment, the eyes 

 were covered with long hair. I wrote to Mr. G. Meade-Waldo, 

 asking him to look at Smith's type, and received this reply : — 

 " I have carefully examined L. venustiis, Sm., and find the eyes 

 are clothed with long pale hair ! Smith's estimate of length 

 (4^ 1.) is not far out for the type specimen in its present position 

 with abdomen somewhat curved; I would suggest 11^ mm. as a 

 fair estimate of the total length, if the abdomen were straight." 

 There is therefore no doubt that the specimen from Victoria is 

 really L. venusttis, which should, I think, form the type of a 

 new genus. 



Paracollctes turneri, Cockerell. 



The known range is greatly extended by a specimen from 

 Rutherglen, Victoria, 1909 (French ; Froggatt collection, 86). 

 Mr. Meade-Waldo has kindly examined the types of P. turneri 

 and P. elegans (Sm.), and notes that in P. turneri the post- 

 scutellum is armed medially with a small tooth-like process (so 

 also in the specimen from Victoria), but in P. elegans the post- 

 scutellum is shining, entirely impunctate, and bluntly sub- 

 tuberculate. 



Xenoglossa citrullina, sp. n. 



J* . Length about 10 mm., antennae about 7 ; black, head and 

 thorax with very pale grey hair, vertex with some long fuscous hairs 

 curving over ocelli, middle of scutellum and hind part of disc of 

 mesothorax with dark sooty hair ; nearly the lower half of clypeus 

 yellow, the upper edge of the yellow angled in middle ; labrum yellow ; 

 mandibles black, obscurely reddish toward apex ; antennae black, the 

 tiagellum very obscurely reddish beneatb, its apical half strongly 

 crenulated ; maxillary palpi five-jointed, the last four joints measuring 

 in fi (2.) 192, (3.) 192, (4.) 65, (5.) 110 ; paraglossae extending beyond 

 blade of maxilla, and the latter a little beyond end of second joint of 

 labial palpi ; last joint of labial palpi broad and obliquely truncate at 

 end ; tongue extending abpi:i,t 108^ /x beyond paraglossae ; mesothorax 

 dullish, with evident shallow punctures ; tegulge rufopiceous, with 

 some dark sooty hair ; wings moderately dusky ; b. n. falling short 

 of t. m. ; small joints of tarsi ferruginous ; hair on inner side of tarsi 

 bright fox-red ; abdomen very distinctly punctured ; second segment 

 with a pale basal hair-band, evanescent in middle ; segments three to 

 five with dense subapical bands of very pale yellowish-grey tomen- 

 tum ; sixth with redder hair, which covers apical margin ; apical 

 plate ferruginous, broadly truncate ; no lateral spines. 



Hab. — Piura, Peru, at flowers of water-melon, May (C. H. T. 

 Townsend). It had previously visited an Asclepiad, as shown 

 by two pollen-masses on the legs. This is related to the North 

 American Xenoglossa pruinosa, Say, but differs in the maxillary 

 palpi, which rather resemble those of Tetralonia leucocephala, 

 Bertoni and Schrottky. The subapical hair-band, conspicuous 



