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piceous ; b. 11. meeting t.-m. on outer side ; second s.m. only 

 moderately broad, receiA'ing first r. n. about middle; end of 

 first r. n. about twice as far from second t.-c. as second r, n. 

 from third t.-c. Legs with fuscous to cream-coloured hair, 

 hirgely fuscous on outer side of anterior and middle tibise, 

 but hind tibial scopa cream-coloured or very pale brownish. 

 Abdomen very finelj' and closely punctured, segments 2 to 4 

 Avith interrupted white hair-bands, apical half of fifth densely 

 covered with ochreous hair, and the sixth with the same ; 

 a[)ical plate narrow and rather small ; apical half of venter 

 covered with appressed golden hair. 



Hah. Yallingup, Dec. 23, 1913-Jau. 23, 1914 : 3 ? {R. E. 

 Turner). British Museum. 



In my table of Smith's species this falls neorcst to P. oh- 

 scums, which has sooty-black hair on the fifth abdominal 

 segment. Superficially it is very like certain species of 

 And?-ena. 



Goniocolletes pallidus, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 11"5 mm. 



Agreeing in structure and most characters with G.morsus, 

 Ckll., the type of the genus, but having the abdomen light 

 ferruginous (hind margins of segments broadly hyaline), 

 with the punctures very fine <'ind the mesothoiax feebly 

 punctured. The pygidial area on seventh tergite of* abdomen 

 and the projecting a[)ical plate beyond are red. The tlagellum 

 is dusky red, almost Ijlack above. The third s.m. is l)ioad 

 al)ove and the third t.-c. is strongly bowed outward. Hind 

 tibi;e with approximately apical half black and basal half 

 orange-fulvous. Maxillary palpi short. 



Hah. Hermannsburg, Central Australia [H. J. HiUier). 

 British Museum. 



Tlie second known specimen and species of this remarkable 

 genus. 



Callomc'Utta rugosa, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 8 mm. 



General form as in C. picta ; head and thorax with scanty, 

 short, pale reddish hair ; head black, with the lower uiaigiu 

 of elypeus, labrum (which is emarginate), and mandibles 

 (which are thick, bidentate at apex) obscure dark red ; an- 

 tennae entirely bright ferruginous ; entire head strongly and 

 quite closely punctured ; mesothorax terra-cotta red, except 

 a large black patch in the posterior middle, the whole 

 appearing rugose from the strong and very dense punctures; 



