29G I\rr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



partly black and partly dull white ; mesothorax anteriorly 

 very coarsely tabercnlate, its posterior third, and the scu- 

 tellum, dull and densely rugoso-punctate ; tegulse dark 

 reddish brown. Wings smoky, nervures black ; second re- 

 current nervure almost meeting second transverso-cubital. 

 Legs black, with black hair, hind tibiae coarsely tuberculate 

 on outer side ; a small pulvillus present. Abdomen shining 

 black ; the first two segments sericeous and scarcely punc- 

 tured, the others with miniite close punctures ; hair-bands 

 white, but reduced to hardly visible rudiments, the most 

 distinct appearing as a fine line on the hind margin of 

 segment 5 ; hair of apical segment black, the extreme apex 

 dark ferruginous ; ventral scopa dark, appearing reddish in 

 sume lights, a sort of purplish lilack or dark brown in others ; 

 venter, underneath the scopa, with three rather narrow clean- 

 cut white hair-bands. 



Hab. N.W. Coast of Australia, no. 69-59. 



Allied to the Indian L. atratus, Smith, but larger and 

 more rugose. 



Saropoda homb'iformis , Smith. 



Toowoomba, no. 93. 189 ; ? . Queensland, " Ridg. 2.92 ; 

 691/' and 94. 61. S- 



The hair of the head and thorax above is strongly mixed 

 with black iu both sexes, but this is not apparent unless the 

 insect is examined from the side. 



Sliljmosoma IcBvigatum, Smith. 



Queensland, no. 94. 61, '^ Ridgw. 11.93; 430.^' 2 ? . 



Facial fovese linear, rather short. Thorax with median 

 and lateral linear grooves. Abdomen varying to dark 

 purple-blue. The insect is not like a Prosopis, but very 

 closely resembles Euryglossa, from which it appears to be an 

 offshoot. The venation is like that of Euryglossa, except 

 that the second recurrent nervure joins the second sub- 

 marginal cell a considerable distance from its end, whereas 

 in Euryglossa it joins it at the end. 



Parasphecodes talchiiis, Smith. 



Victoria, Australia, no. 85. 108. S • 



The first r. n. meets second t.-c. ; antennae entirely black. 



Parasphecodes Froggatti, sp. n. 



^ . — Length about 9| mm. 



Head and thorax black, covered with white lanose pubes- 

 cence ; face narrow ; lower half of clypeus (except brownish 



