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brush-like pale hair ; middle and hind legs dark red clouded with black ; abdomen 

 M ith weak rather sparse punctures, the surface feebly shining ; first segment red, 

 \\ith the base broadly black, and the hind margin at sides cream colour; second 

 segment very large, and black ; third red, black at extreme base, and marked with 

 cream colour apically, especially at sides ; remaining segments pale dull red ; third 

 ventral segment with a very broad white band, abruptly contracted at sides. It also 

 differs greatly from H. concinna by the extremely large and coarse, and partly con- 

 fluent punctures on mesothorax ; the strong punctures on the shining scutellum ; 

 the area of metathorax wiih. a pair of large obtuse tubercles ; and the clear hyaline 

 wings, aside from the dark costal region of anterior pair. The sculpture of the meso- 

 thorax is practically as in H. waferhousei Ckll. From H. concinnida Ckll. it is easily 

 known by the dark tegulae, scutellum with only red spots, &c. 



Type from Darra, Brisbane, 26-10-15 [Hacker). Also one marked Brisbane, 

 23- 11 -15 {Hacker). The latter differs in having the ferruginous clypeal bands extending 

 nearly to top of clypeus, and marked with a line of black, and in having a small 

 red band along lower margin of supraclypeal area. 



REEPENIA (Friese). 

 Reepenia eboracina (Cockerell). 

 A male from Gordonvale, North Queensland (no collector's name given), agrees 

 with the type, which is from Cape York. The insect possesses a very remarkable 

 character, hitherto overlooked ; the hind wings have a well-developed dark elongate- 

 lanceolate stigma, not far from the apex. It is to be presumed that the same occurs 

 in R. variabilis (Friese), the type of the genus, and I think I am accordingly justified 

 in giving Reepenia full generic rank. It has hitherto been treated by Friese and myself 

 as a subgenus of Nomia. The Australian Tetralonia brevicornis Smith is doubtless 

 to be called Reepenia brevicornis. 



NOMIA LatreUle. 



Nomia aurantifer swainsonise n. subsp. 



Female (Type). Like N. aurantifer, but with a pale orange band, broadly 

 interrupted in middle, on first abdominal segment ; mesothorax and scutellum with 

 short pale grey, and larger fuscous hair ; hair of legs largely dull white, but black 

 on outer face of middle tibiae, hind knees, &c. ; wings dusky subhyaline, with the 

 apical margin broadly darkened ; hair at sides of first abdominal segment white ; 

 dense apical fringe on fifth segment dark chocolate, almost black ; venter with 

 white hair. 



Male. Similar, except for the usual sexual differences. Flagellum very long, 

 strongly crenulated, black ; mandibles chestnut-red in middle ; face and front 

 densely covered with cream-coloured hair ; mesothorax with much soft pale-grey 

 hair ; tegulse largely reddened ; knees and large part of hind tibiae dark red ; hind 

 trochanters with an apical tuft of short red hair ; hind femora flat beneath, and 



