4!i2 ^Ir. T. D. A. Cockciell — Descriptions and 



Pachijprosopis keUyi, sp. n. 



? . — Lengtli about 5 mm. 



Katlier robust, but head not enlavo;od ; sliining-, almost 

 ■\\itliout liair ; head oranij;e, finely and sparsely punctured, 

 with a pair of ver}' brciad black bands passincr halfway down 

 the front from the lateral ocelli ; the narrow facial foveje, 

 interocellar reo^ion, and occiput also black ; antennpe fulvous, 

 the short flagellum black or nearly so above; mesothorax 

 terra-cotta red, the punctures so minute as to be hardly visible 

 with a lens ; scutLdluni and axilUe orange ; postscutolluin and 

 shining area of metathorax black; truncation (except upper 

 part) and sides of metathorax, and pleura except narrow 

 upper and broad lower part, yellowish fulvous ; legs orange- 

 fulvous, anterior femora black behind except at apex, middle 

 and hind tibise black on outer side, their tarsi brownish ; 

 tegulse pellucid. Wings hyaline ; stigma large, blacky 

 obtuse apically ; marginal cell bulging below; first r. n. 

 joining first s.m. near apex ; second s.m, narrow and elongated 

 above. Abdomen orange, with dorsal region black from 

 middle of first segment to end of fourth, the orange indenting 

 the black at sides ; a black mark at extreme sides of first 

 segment ; venter orange. 



IJab. Mt. Yule, Healesville, Victoria, on Eucalyptus calo- 

 phi/Ua rosea, Feb. 20, 1915 {R. Kelly; British Rluseum). 



Quite unique by its peculiar markings ; except for the 

 vmation, it could go in Juiry^lossa. 



AUSTRODIOXYS, gen. nov. 



Parasitic bees, similar in form and colour to Dioxys, with 

 two submarginal cells ; eyes bare ; scutellum produced, over- 

 lapping pcistscutelluni, very broadly truncate, more or less 

 eniaiginate in middle, the posterior corners angular though 

 not sharp, the margin above the corner translucent; no toofh 

 on postscutelluni ; slign)a small, lanceolate; marginal cell 

 broad, very obliquely truncate, appendiculate, formed essen- 

 tially as in Ammohates carinatus (not rounded at end as in 

 Dioxys) ; first s.m. more than twice as large as second, 

 receiving first r. n. very near its end ; second s.m. veiy 

 broad below, much narrowed above, receiving second r. n. 

 not much beyond middle ; b. n. going a little basad of t.-m.; 

 pubescence minute and appressed, as in Epeolus ; apex of 

 abdomen broadly truncate, with two large rounded pro- 

 jecting teeth, shaped like the tip of a finger; legs bristly; 

 no pulvilli ; anterior claws bifid at end, the others simple. 



