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62), and Stradbroke Island, Oct. 2, 1911, and Dec. 3, 1912 

 (Hanker; Queens]. Mas. 21 and 78); a male comes from 

 Brisbane, March 25, 1912 (Hacker; Qneensl. Mas. (51). A 

 smaller, hardly typical female is from " Windsor, Victoria " 

 (French; Froggatt, 94), and a series of three still smaller 

 females, with the general coloration of var. doddii, Ckll., 

 comes from Brisbane, Sept. 12, 1911, and March 18, 1912 

 (Hacker; Qneensl. Mus. 23 and 71), and " Rutherglen, 

 Victoria" (French; Froggatt, 171). When a row of the 

 small females, with the apical part of the abdomen golden- 

 green, is contrasted with a row of larger, darker, more bine- 

 green flavoviridis, it is difficult not to believe that we haw 

 two species. I am, however, at a loss to find any really 

 satisfactory specific characters, and if there are really two 

 distinct things, it must be for the Australian entomologists 

 to demonstrate it. 



Numia gracilipes, Smith. 



A female labelled " (lunbower " (J. A. Kershaw; Xat. 

 Mus. Vict. 66) agrees with Smith's description, except that 

 it is about 9 mm. long. The abdomen has the first three 

 segments dark blue, with patches of pure white hair on the 

 lateral apical margins, and the remaining segments very 

 dark red suffused with black. The mesothorax is dull, with 

 scattered large punctures and small ones between them. 

 The species is nearest to V. austrahca, Smith. 



Nomia meerens, Smith. 



This was described from " Australia." Females before me 

 from the National Museum of Victoria (CiT, 68, 257) are 

 labelled "Wandin" (Jarvis) and " Fern Tree Gullv," 

 12. 11. 06 (F. P. Spry). 



Nomia feiricauda, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 8 mm. 



Black, with the apical depression of the third abdominal 

 segment, and all the segments beyond, clear ferruginous ; 

 head broad, face with thin white hair, vertex with brownish- 

 white hair: mandibles with a ferruginous patch; tongue 

 dagger-like ; clypcus irregularly punctured, depressed in 

 middle: flagellum obscure red beneath; mesothorax dull, 

 with scattered large punctures and numerous extremely 

 minute ones ; scutellum dull and minutely granular, with 

 very few large punctures : area of metathorax striate; poste- 



