40 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Wings short, strongly infuscated, stigma obsolete, nervures 

 fuscous : b. n. falling just short of t.-m. ; second s.m. very 

 wide, receiving first r. n. a little before middle; anterior 

 femora black, red above apically, and largely beneath, the 

 posterior fringe of hair orange-fulvous ; middle femora 

 similarly coloured, but posterior fringe snow-Avhite : bind 

 femora black, -nitb a long cnrled pale fulvous plumose scopa, 

 and bright red hair at apex; tibiae and tarsi red (anterior 

 and middle tibiae more or less sufl'used with blackish on outer 

 side), with red hair ; scopa of hind tibiae ligbt golden red in 

 front, much darker above; hind basitarsi broad. Abdomen 

 black with four golden bauds, the heavy fringe of hair on 

 fifth segment rather dark rich red : apical plate truncate. 



cf . — Length 16 mm. 



DiflFers from ? thus : face densely covered with very 

 bright golden-fulvous (very red) hair; the prominent 

 clypeus yellowish suffused with reddish, with a dusky spot 

 on each side ; hair of cheeks below prolonged on each 

 side into a long jiale fulvous beard ; hair of vertex and 

 occiput long and red : scape short, red ; flagellum long, 

 bright ferruginous beneath, the last joint enlarged and 

 flattened, discoid, pallid, with a large black spot ; third 

 autennal joint deformed, excavated in front and swollen 

 behind ; hair of thorax above longer, long on scutellum, 

 the general effect mouse-grev : limd tibiaj and bnsitarsi 

 slender and elongated, the tibiae arched basally : abdomen 

 with five broad golden bands ; apex ferruginous. 



Hab. Yallingup, near Cape Naturaliste, S.W. Australia, 

 Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 1913 {tt. E. Tunier). 1 ? (type) ; 2 <? . 

 British Museum. 



Close to A. aureutincta and A. hackeri : the females of 

 the three are separated as follows : — 



First abdominal segment without a golden band. . hacheri, CkU. 



First abdominal segment witb a golden band. ... 1. 



1. Legs black ; size smaller (^13 mm.) aureotincta, CkU. 



Legs largely red ; size larger (^16 mm.) dives, Ckll. 



ParacuUttes caUurus, sp. n. 



? . — Length 10 mm. 



Black, with the last two abdominal segments densely 

 covered with bright ferruginous hair ; hair of face, lower part 

 of front, cheeks, thorax above anteriorly, tubercles, pleura, 

 metathorax, and a tuft at each side of scutellum rather dull 

 white ; vertex and disc of thorax, including scutellum, with 

 biack hair; head broad, eyes converging below ; mandibles 

 with a red subapical spot; clypeus densely and stronglv 

 punctured, the lower middle shining and little punctured ; 



