14 HYMENOPTERA. 



10. LAMPROCOLLETES PUNCTATUS. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black, the face clothed with hoary 

 pubescence, the vertex with dirty white, the clypeus deeply punc- 

 tured, rounded in front, antennae beneath testaceous. Thorax 

 above smooth, shining and distantly punctured, clothed thinly 

 with pale ochraceous pubescence, palest and most dense on the 

 sides, particularly of the metathorax, which is rounded and very 

 delicately punctured ; wings hyaline, nervures pale testaceous ; 

 legs rufo-piceous fringed with pale bright yellow pubescence, 

 that on the tarsi within is fulvous, the floccus nearly white ; the 

 scopa has a pale golden lustre beneath, above it is fuscous, the 

 claws ferruginous. Abdomen depressed, shining, closely and 

 rather finely punctured, margins of the segments depressed and 

 thinly fringed with pale fulvous pubescence ; the fifth segment 

 has a pale fulvous fimbria intermingled with fuscous hairs which 

 clothe the sides of the sixth, its centre being occupied by a naked 

 longitudinal space. 

 Hab< -Adelaide. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



11. LAMPROCOLLETES VERSICOLOR. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black, the head closely punctured, 

 deeply and distantly so on the clypeus, which is smooth, shining 

 and rounded in front ; on the face a little griseous pubescence, 

 that on the vertex fuscous. Thorax very smooth and shining, 

 with distant fine punctures; metathorax rounded ; tegulse shining 

 nigro-piceous ; the wings subhyaline, iridescent ; beneath is a 

 thin pale pubescence, as well as on the sides of the metathorax ; 

 legs dark rufo-piceous, apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, the 

 floccus on the posterior legs white, the scopa silvery white be- 

 neath, fuscous above, the tarsi within fulvous. Abdomen de- 

 pressed, oval, of a blue-green with a silken gloss; the apical 

 segment clothed with fuscous pubescence ; beneath, the margins 

 of the segments have a long fringe of pale yellow pubescence. 

 Hab. Adelaide. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



Genus 6. DASYCOLLETES. 



Dasycolletes, F. Smith's MSS. 



Head transverse, rounded in front ; antennae, the basal joint 

 elongate arcuate, about one- third of the entire length ; the 

 stemmata placed in a slight curve ; the mentum short and 

 broad, anteriorly pointed in the middle, recurved on each side ; 

 the labium deeply emarginate at the extremity ; the paraglossse 



