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bescence cinereous, most dense at the sides of the metathorax, 

 the enclosed space at the base of the latter smooth, shining and 

 transversely striate at the base ; wings hyaline, slightly clouded 

 at the apex ; nervures black, the pubescence on the femora and 

 posterior tibiaj beneath silvery white, fulvous on the tarsi be- 

 neath and fuscous on the tibiae above, the claws ferruginous. 

 Abdomen ovate, shining, the segments at and towards their base 

 closely punctured, their apex smooth and imi)unctate ; the apical 

 margins depressed and having laterally a short fringe of white 

 pubescence, the anal fimbria black. 

 Hub. South AustraUa. 



8. Lamprocolletes aurifrons. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black, head a little wider than the 

 thorax, the face thickly covered with bright golden-coloured pu- 

 bescence ; the antennae testaceous beneath, the scape black. 

 Thorax, the ])ubescence on the disk fulvous, that on the sides, 

 beneath and on the legs is pale golden yellow ; the tibiae and 

 tarsi pale ferruginous ; the tegulae testaceous ; wings hyaline, 

 splendidly prismatic, their nervures ferruginous. Abdomen co- 

 nical, nigro-a;neous, and having the margins of all the segments 

 testaceous ; beneath, the fourth and fifth segments have a short, 

 thick fringe of bright golden yellow-colom'ed pubescence. 

 Hab. Adelaide. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



9. Lamprocolletes cupreus, n. s. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head and thorax bright green, the 

 abdomen coppeiy ; the pubescence on the face and cheeks white, 

 slightly fuscous on the vertex ; the clj'peus coarsely punctured ; the 

 antennae ferruginous beneath except the three basal joints, which 

 are black. Thorax, above the ])ubescence is spai'ing and slightly 

 fuscous, beneath and on the coxae and femora it is dense, long 

 and white, above strongly punctured ; the tegulae rufo-testaceous 

 as well as the stigma, the nervures of a little darker red ; the 

 wings clear hyaline, beautifully prismatic ; the anterior and in- 

 termediate tarsi and the posterior tibiae and tarsi ferruginous, 

 their pubescence pale fulvous ; at the base of the abdomen is a 

 little white pubescence, the rest of the upper surface is thinly 

 covered with short pale fulvous pubescence, the fifth segment is 

 clothed with long pubescence of the same colour, the mai'gins of 

 the segments beneath are fringed with similar long hau' ; above 

 the abdomen is very delicately and beneath strongly punctured. 

 Hub. Adelaide. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



