14 IIYMENOPTERA. 



10. LaMI'ROCOLLKTES I'UNCTATUS. 



Foinali'. Lensrth 1 lines.— Black, the face clothed with hoary 

 pubeseence. the vertex with dirty white, tlie dypens deei)ly punc- 

 tured, roiuuled in front, antenn;c beneath testaceous. Th()rax 

 al)()ve smooth, shining and distantly punctured, clothed thinly 

 with ])ale oehraceous pubescence, palest and most dense on the 

 sides, particidarlv of the metathorax, which is rounded and very 

 delicately punctured ; w ings hyaline, nervures pale testaceous ; 

 IcL's rufo-piceous fringed with" pale bright yellow pubescence, 

 that on the tarsi within is fulvous, the floecus nearly white ; the 

 scopa has a pale golden lustre beneath, above it is fuscous, the 

 claws ferruginous. Abdomen depressed, shining, closely and 

 rather tinelv jiuuctured, margins of the segments depressed and 

 thinly fringed with pale fulvous pubescence ; the fifth segment 

 has a paleftilvous fimbria intermingled with fuscous hairs which 

 clothe the sides of the sixth, its centre being occupied by a naked 

 longituchnal space. 

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



11. LaMPROCOLLETES VERSICOLOR. 



Female. Length 4 lines.— Black, the head closely punctured, 

 deeply and distantly so on the clypeus, which is smooth, shining 

 and rounded in front ; on the face a little griseous pubescence, 

 that on the vertex fuscous. Thorax very smooth and shining, 

 with distant fine ])unctures; metathorax rounded ; tegulse shining 

 nigro-piceous ; the wings subhyaline, iridescent ; beneath is a 

 thin pale jjubescence, as well as on the sides of the metathorax ; 

 legs dark rufo-piceous, apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, the 

 floecus on the posterior legs white, the scopa silvery white be- 

 neath, fuscous above, the tarsi within fulvous. Abdomen de- 

 pressed, oval, of a blue-green with a silken gloss ; the apical 

 segment clothed w ith fuscous pubescence ; beneath, the margins 

 of 'the segments have a long fringe of pale yellow pubescence. 



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



Genus 6. DASYCOLLETES. 



Dasycolletes, F. Smith's MSS. 



Head transverse, rounded in front ; antennae, the basal joint 

 elongate arcuate, about one-third of the entire length ; the 

 stemmata placed in a slight curve ; the mentum short and 

 broad, anteriorly pointed in the middle, recui-ved on each side ; 

 the labium deeply emarginate at the extremitj- ; the paraglossae 



