180 Mr. F. Smith's Notes on 



Sp. 1. Lestis bombylaus. 



Apis bombijlans, Fab. Ent. Syst. 2, 338, 104, $. 

 Centris bombylans, Fab. Syst. Piez. 358, 19. 



Female (length 6-7 lines), dark blue-green ; the face and 

 cheeks clothed with a thin silvery white pubescence; the thorax 

 is strongly punctured, except the disk, which is smooth and 

 shining ; the wings dark fuscous, with a violet reflection ; and the 

 apex of the abdomen has a fringe of white pubescence. The 

 pubescence on the legs is black. 



Male (6-7 lines), brassy green : head ; the clypeus has an oblong 

 white stripe, broadest towards the base of the antennae ; also a 

 narrow white line along the inner margin of the eyes, reaching 

 their vertex. The thorax has two triangular patches of yellow 

 pubescence, separated by a smooth space the exact width of the 

 distance between the eyes ; a patch of the same colour on the 

 sides of the breast, and on the tubercles; the wings slightly fus- 

 cous; the anterior and intermediate tibia and tarsi have on their 

 posterior margins a pale yellow fringe ; that on the posterior legs 

 is black. The apex of the abdomen has some long dark fuscous 

 pubescence. 



Sp. 2. Lestis ceratus, new sp. 



Female (7-8 lines), brassy green ; the pubescence on the face 

 pale yellow, the thorax punctured as in the preceding species ; 

 the wings slightly fuscous ; the pubescence at the apex of the 

 abdomen is pale yellow. 



Male (7-8 lines), brassy ; the face is marked as in the pre- 

 ceding species, but the colour, instead of being white, is yellow ; 

 the patches of pubescence are situated as in the preceding, but 

 are much more dense, and of a bright yellow ; wings hyaline, 

 slightly fuscous ; all the legs are fringed with bright yellow 

 pubescence. 



On the Habits of Abispa, a solitary Australian Wasp. 



Mr. Ker also informed me that this wasp constructs a nest of 

 clay ; it is thimble-shaped, about three inches in diameter, and 

 three and three-quarters in height; the rounded end is upper- 



