( cvii ) 



be one or two large and wide ranging Psamniocharidae and 

 the bee Hylaeoides concinna, F., which also has a wide range 

 in S.E. Australia. Tasmanian Eumenidae usually have 

 narrow yellow bands on the abdomen. 



At Yallingup, on the coast south of Perth, the Australian 

 pattern seemed to be confined to one or two wide ranging 

 Eumenidae and Psamniocharidae, the more characteristic 

 local species of Alasfor (Eumenidae) all having narrow yellow 

 bands. In the Perth district the Australian pattern (V) was not 

 common, though better represented than at Yallingup ; still 

 the local Hylaeoides has yellow bands, not orange as in S.E. 

 Australia. At Mackay, N. Queensland, a considerable number 

 of wasps had the orange colouring, but nearly all were 

 Eumenidae, the only Fossorial examples being Crahronidae 

 and Psammocharidae. 



The colouring does not exist among the Mutillidae, 

 Thynnidae or Scoliidae, and only in Hylaeoides among the 

 bees. The Australian pattern is very well represented in 

 the Du Boulay collection from the Champion Bay district, 

 W.A., also, apparently, further inland in W.A., where Cerceris 

 and Arpactus {Crahronidae) are affected; the same genera 

 are also afiected in S. Australia and to a smaller extent at 

 Brisbane. At Perth one Bemhex has the colouring, though 

 nowhere else does the colour occur in this genus, which is 

 well represented in Australia. 



Kainfall at Yallingup and Perth about 35 inches ; Yallingup 

 more cloudy than Perth; Champion Bay district about 17 

 inches; further inland 9 inches; Mackay about 75 inches, 

 with well-marked wet and dry seasons ; Tasmania cloudy 

 and windy. These remarks seem to show that the colouring 

 is not indigenous in cool moist climates, but is developed in 

 hot and sunny districts, especially in dry climates. 



There are also one or two other Australian patterns which 

 are much more local and less dominant, such as testaceous 

 with a black head in the Cairns district, several bees and 

 Crahronidae being affected; and black with the second 

 abdominal segment bright red in S.W. Australia, affecting 

 two Mutillidae and one Arpactus {Crahronidae). 



The number of undetermined species in the following list 



