232 Dl'- Reiuhold Meyer: 



(^. — Length about 5,5 mm. 



Head and thorax black; head broad, facial quadrangle broader 

 tlian long; face with yellowish pubescence; mandibles simple, black 

 basally, pale yellowish in the middle, ferruginous at tips; front and 

 Vertex dull, minutely roughened; antennae long, entirely black, scape 

 long, Joint 3 a trifle longer than 4, 5 about as long as 3 and 4togetlier, 

 flagellar joints very distinct; mesothorax and scutellum nude except 

 for a few pale fulvous hairs (mainly on scutellum), smooth and shining 

 with scattered inconspicuous very minute punctures, only visible with 

 a good lens; ßides of thorax with a very thin griseous or whitish pu- 

 bescence; arca of metathorax large, semilunar, dull, with extremely 

 fine threadlike longitudiual ptriac; tcgulac chining reddish, marked 

 with darker, Wings clear, btrongly iridescent ; stigma large, it and the 

 nervures rufous; fir^t s. m. much longer than the other two united; 

 second very narrow, much higher than broad, narrowed abouve, re- 

 ceiving the first r. n. at its middle; third higher than broad, but larger 

 than second; second r. n, and third t.-c. weakened, and lower boundary 

 of third s. m. almost obsolete. Legs bright ferruginous, the coxae, 

 trochanters, and basal half or more of femora black; outer edge of 

 hind tibiae and the ]a;,t two joints of the'r tar;>i darkened; abdomen 

 shining, quite without hair-bands, black bassaly and apically, with 

 the apical margin of first segment, the second except a median stain, 

 and the greater part of the third chestnut-red ; apical plate red, broadly 

 truncate, much broader than long, suggestive of the genus Proteraner ; 

 venter red, stained with blackish. 



Hab. Hobart, Tasmania, no. 91 — 155. 



Because of the smooth mesothorax, this cannot be the male of 

 S. antipodes Smith. 



2. Subgenus Callosphecodes. 



1909. Friese, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung, VII, p. 182. 



Friese gibt für dies Subgenus folgende Beschreibung: Wie Sphe- 

 codes, aber Cubitalzelle II nach vorn stark verjüngt, Discoidalquer- 

 ader I fast interstitial auf II. Cubitalquerader. Abdomen einfarbig 

 blau. — • Oceanien. Es ist unzweifelhaft, daß diese Untergattung mit 

 Temnosomain naher Verwandtschaft steht. Eine Art aus der australisch- 

 raalayischen Subregion. 



195. Sphecodes (Callosphecodes) ralunensis Fr. 



1909. Friese, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. VII, p. 182. 



Durch das einfarbig blauschwarze Abdom.en unter allen Arten 

 von Sphecodes auffallend. 



$. Schwarz, kaum kurz schwarzgrau behaart, Kopf und Thorax 

 dicht runzelig punktiert, matt, Clypeus doppelt so breit wie lang, stark 

 vorgewölbt, Antenne unten braun, Glieder so lang wie breit, nur 3. 



