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



nervures and stigma reddish ; first r. n. joining second s.m. 

 almost at its end; second s.m. not far from square; second 

 r. n. and third t,-c. much -weakened. Anterior and middle 

 legs dark red, hind legs clear red, hair of legs tinged with 

 yellowish ; hind spur simple ; abdomen convex, shining, dark 

 chestnut-i'ed strongly suffused with black, from the middle of 

 the third segment to the apex practically black, except the 

 coppery hind margins ; surface of abdomen not punctate. 



Hah. Adelaide ; 54-55. 



Tn my table of Purasphecodes (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 

 1904, p. 209) this runs to P. tuchilas and P. lichatus, but it 

 is distinct by the very dark and shining abdomen, wherein, 

 as also in the weakened outer nervures, it resembles rather 

 P. tilachus. 



Purasphecodes Loweri, sp. n. 



5 . — Length about 9j^ mm. 



Robust ; head and thorax black, rather pubescent, the hair 

 white beneath, yellowish cinereous above, forming a little 

 dense light patch on the anterior middle of the scatellum; 

 head broad, but facial quadrangle longer than broad ; clypeus 

 shining, with numerous large punctures ; mandibles entirely 

 black ; flagellum faintly reddish beneath ; front, vertex, 

 mesothorax, and scutellum minutely roughened, glistening ; 

 area of raetathorax scarcely defined, with irregular longi- 

 tudinal wrinkles only on the basal part; upper corners of 

 posterior truncation rounded ; tegulse rather large, dull dark 

 reddish, the anterior margins narrowly hyaline. Wings with 

 a rather strong yellowish tinge ; nervures and stigma ferru- 

 ginous ; first r. n. meeting second t.-c, but a little on the 

 inner side ; second s.m. higher than broad, somewhat 

 narrowed above. Legs dark reddish brown, with abundant 

 pale pubescence ; basal joint of hind tarsi with an apical 

 fulvous tuft ; hind spur simple. Abdomen broad, thinly 

 pubescent, very minutely and closely punctured ; first three 

 segments chestnut-red, the others black, first segment with a 

 blackish anchor-shaped mark ; hind margins of first three 

 segments orange. The second r. n. and third t.-c. are 

 weakened. 



Hub. Adelaide, Australia; 52. 124. 



Differs from P. tuchilas by the hind margins of abdominal 

 segments 1 and 2 not darkened, clypeus with numerous 

 punctures, &c. It approaches P. melbournensis in having the 

 enclosure of metathorax diversely sculptured, but differs in 

 other particulars. 



