432 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Pachyprosopls keVyi, sp. n. 



? . — Lengtli about 5 mm. 



Rather robust, but head not enlarged; sliining, almost 

 witiiout hair ; head orange, finely and sparsely punctured, 

 with a pair of very broad black bands passing halfway down 

 the front from the lateral ocelli ; the narrow facial fovese, 

 interocellar region, and occiput also black ; antenna? fulvous, 

 the short flagellum black or nearly so above; mesothorax 

 terra-cotta red, the punctures so minute as to be hardly visible 

 with a lens ; scutellum and axillse orange ; postscutellum and 

 shining area of metathorax black; truncation (except upper 

 part) and sides of metathorax, and pleura except narrow 

 upper and broad lower part, yellowish fulvous ; legs orange- 

 fulvous, anterior femora black behind except at apex, middle 

 and hind tibi?e black on outer side, their tarsi brownish ; 

 tcguloe pellucid. Wings hyaline ; stigma large, blacky 

 obtuse apically ; marginal cell bulging below" ; first r. n. 

 joining first s.m. near apex ; second s.m. narrow and elongated 

 above. Abdomen orange, with dorsal region black from 

 middle of first segment to end of fourth, the orange indenting 

 the black at sides ; a black mark at extreme sides of first 

 segment ; venter orange. 



Hah. Mt. Yule, Healesville, Victoria, on Eucalyptus calo- 

 p)liyUa rosea, Feb. 20, 1915 [R. Kelly ; British Museum). 



Quite unique by its peculiar mai-kings ; except for the 

 venation, it could go in Euryglossa. 



AuSTRODiOXYS, gen. nov. 



Parasitic bees, similar in form and colour to I)ioA\f/s, with 

 two submarginal cells ; eyes bare ; scutellum produced, over- 

 hipping postscutellum, very broadly truncate, more or less 

 emaiginate in middle, the posterior corners angular though 

 not sharp, the margin above the corner translucent; no tooth 

 on postscutellum; stigma small, lanceolate; marginal cell 

 broad, very obliquely truncate, appendiculate, formed essen- 

 tially as in Ammohates carinatus (not rounded at end as in 

 Dioxys) ; first s.m. more than twice as large as second, 

 receiving first r. n. very near its end ; second s.m. very 

 broad below, much narrowed above, receiving second r. n. 

 not much beyond middle ; b. n. going a little basad of t.-m.; 

 pubescence minute and appressed, as in Epeolus ; apex of 

 abdomen broadly truncate, with two large rounded pro- 

 jecting teeth, shaped like the tip o£ a finger; legs bristly ; 

 no pulvilli ; anterior claws bifid at end, the others simple. 



