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cinereous ; the tibiee and tarsi cinereous above ; wings 

 fuscous, with their apical margins darkest. Abdomen 

 smooth and shining, with cinereous fasciae on the apical 

 margins of the segments. 



The male resembles the female. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



In the British Museum. 



Gren. Priocnemis. 

 1. Priocnemis affectata. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Black, with the two basal 

 segments of the abdomen ferruginous, wings maculated. 

 Head as wide as the thorax, the face and cheeks with 

 a fine griseous pile, the head thinly sprinkled with fuscous 

 hairs ; the antennee bright ferruginous ; the iabrum, 

 mandibles, and palpi, dark ferruginous. Thorax : the 

 posterior margin of the prothorax arched ; the sides 

 parallel ; the metathorax, the coxse, and sides, covered 

 with a fine glossy pile, reflecting golden tints in difterent 

 lights ; the truncation of the metathorax smooth, not 

 shining, the upper surface transversely grooved ; wings 

 fulvo-hyaline, their apical margins with a narrow fuscous 

 border, and also a quadrate fuscous spot at the apex of 

 the third discoidal cell, extending upwards into the 

 corners of the second and thii-d sub-marginals ; legs 

 bright ferruginous, with black cox«. Abdomen : the 

 extreme base, also the base of the second segment in the 

 middle, its apical margin broadly, and the following seg- 

 ments entirely black; the apical segment with bright 

 ferruginous hairs. 



Hab. South Australia (Moreton Bay ?) . 



In the British Museum, 



2. Priocnemis defensor. 



Female. Length 7-10 lines. Black, with ferruginous 

 wings. Head narrower than the thorax, antennee incras- 

 sate ; the body pilose, in some lights having a dull 

 violet lustre. Thorax : truncate posteriorly, slightly 

 rounded anteriorly ; the posterior margin of the pro- 

 thorax curved ; the sides parallel ; the wings ferruginous. 



