Records of Dees. .TT)? 



flagelluin thick, it8 iniddlo sutures aomcwhat constricted 

 beiH'utlj ; eyes large ; face narrow, facial quadrangle very 

 much longer than broad ; hair of face not clensti enough to 

 liide suiface, pale, witli a silvery lustre and a slight yellowish 

 tint ; clypeu.s, face, and front strongly and densely punc- 

 tured ; sidi's of vertex shining, witli strong well-separated 

 punctures ; cheek-* small, hardly half diameter of eye ; meso- 

 thorax ancl scutellum sliining, with distinct well-se[)arated 

 punctures; seutellum with pale yellowish hair; area of 

 metathorax broadly triangular, smooth and shining, without 

 sculpture ; sides of metathorax with two little projecting 

 points, as in Binghamiella. Legs with thin pale g<jldeii 

 hair; tegnhe clear ruto-fulvous. Wings hyaline but hairy, 

 the apex broadly dusky, including apical jjart of marginal 

 cell; stigma and nervures ferruginous; stigma large; lower 

 section of b. n. gently arched, falling a little short of t.-m. ; 

 second s.m. much liiglier than broad, twice as broad below as 

 above, and receiving fir.st r. n. in middle ; third s.m. also 

 higher than broad. Ab lomeii broad, shining, with sparse 

 inconspicuous pale yellowish hair; third segment with 

 evident j)unctures. 



Hub. Cairns, Queensland, ''Kur. 3. 02 " {G. ct R. Turner). 

 British Museum. 



A very distinct species, easily known by its peculiar colour. 

 It is in some ways intermediate between Callomelitta and 

 Binjhamiella. Tlie metathorax and comparatively small 

 size suggest Binghamiella, but the venation is different and 

 more like that of Callomelitta. The peculiar coloration 

 recalls Ilulictus roivlandi and Parasphecodes contaminatus, 

 also found at Cairns. 



Exoneura hicolor^ Smith. 



8mith based this genus and species on the female only. 

 E. picti/rons, Alfken, may be its male, it is from S.W. Aus- 

 tralia ; and Swan Kiver must apparently be considered the 

 type locality of E. hicolor^ as it is the first of the two localities 

 cited. A male in the British Museum from Victoria {C. F., 

 Sept. 1901, Turner Collection) may belong to bicolor ov to 

 hamulata — more probably, I think, to the latter, as it has the 

 scape entirely dark, the first abilo:ninal segment black above, 

 and the second very largely bhick. The eyes are extr<»mely 

 I'lrge and |)roniinfnt, and the face is very narrow, luirrower in 

 the miildle than the width of an eye; clypeus pale yellow ; 

 yellow lateral face-marks narrow, not nearly reaching level 

 of top of clyi)eus, the black interval between them and cly[)eus 



