Records of Dees. 137 



( $ varicolor may have a minute light clypeal spot, and so come in 

 here. Male "varicolor obtained by Dodd at Townsville show- 

 variation; the axilliB may be cream-colour and second abdominal 

 segment purple, and the clypeus may be all light except the 

 sutures.) 



Blue species ; first two abdominal seg- 

 ments sparsely punctured 31. 



31. Face light, no black band between 



clypeus and lateral marks ; supra- 



clypeal mark present turneriana, Ckll. 



A metallic purplish dark band at each 

 side of clypeus ; second abdominal 

 segment more sparsely and feebly 

 punctured turneriana kurandensis, 



32. Scutellum and postscutellum wholly [Ckll. 



black ; size small or medium 33. 



Scutellum and postscutellum at least 

 partly light 38. 



33. Prothorax, except tubercles, black ; head 



seen from in front round 34. 



Prothorax with upper border at least 

 largely pale 35. 



34. Face black, with a pair of short quadrate 



chrome-yellow lateral marks quadriceps, Sin. 



Clypeus, supraclypeal mark, and lateral 



"marks deep yellow hobartiuna, Ckll. (? J of 



35. Males ; the face yellow right across .... 36. [quadriceps. 

 Clypeus black, with a large cream- 

 coloured spot. (Celebes.) insularis, Sin. 



Clypeus wholly black ; light markings 

 deep chrome-yellow 37. 



36. Very small, slender ; face lemon-yellow, primulipicta, Ckll. 

 Size' medium, robust; face deep chrome- 

 yellow ; abdomen with large processes, 



one on each side, beneath bituberculat.a, Sm. 



37. Larger; punctures of mesothorax very 



distinct amiculiformis, Ckll. 



Smaller; punctures of mesothorax so small 

 as to be hardly visible separately under 

 a lens amicula, Sm. 



38. Postscutellum wholly black, or (per- 



crassa) with a very small elongate 



mark 39. 



Postscutellum at least largely light (in 

 every case the colour of it and the 

 scutellum is deep chrome-yellow) .... 42. 



39. Very large robust species, of the build of 



alcyonea 40. 



Species of ordinary form, not very large. 41. 



40. Clypeus with a median creamy-white 



stripe penetrata, Sm. 



Clypeus wholly dark penetrata percrassa, Ckll. 



(P. percrassa was described as a distinct species, but a specimen 



collected by Dodd in Queensland is clearly intermediate, having 



the clypeus with the upper part of the white mark only, and no 



light colour on postscutellum.) 



