fit Co ids vj litLS. 31.1 



pircoiis ; 1). n. iiK'ciiiij^ t.-in. on outer siiii- ; sccdtnl s.ni. only 

 moderately hroad, rect'iviii;^ firNt r. ii. al)out miildle ; end of 

 first r. n. about twice as far from second t.-c. as sccf)ri(i r. n. 

 from third t.-c. I-egs with fuscous to cream-coloured hair, 

 hirj;cly fuscous on outer sirle of anterior and middle tihiie, 

 hut hind tibial scopa cream-coloured or very pale brownish. 

 Abdomen very finely and closely punctured, segments 2 to \ 

 Mitli iiiterru|)ted white hair-bands, apical half of fifth densely 

 covered with oehrecjus hair, and the sixth with the same; 

 apical plate narrow and rather small ; apical half of venter 

 covered with appresscd jiolden hair. 



Hab. Valiin-np, Dec. 2:3, lyi.'J-Jau. 'IW^ IDl t : .'J ? ( 7^. /;. 

 Turner). Jiritish Museum. 



In my table of Smith's species this falls nearest to P. oh- 

 sciirus, which has sooty-black hair on the fifth abdominal 

 segment. Superficially it is very like certain species of 

 Andrena. 



Goniocolletes pallidus, sp. n. 



(^ . — Lenjith about 115 mm. 



Agreeing in structure and most characters with G.morsus, 

 Ckll., the type of the genus, but having the abdomen light 

 ferruginous (hind margins of segments broadly hyaline), 

 with tlic punctures very fine and the mesothorax feebly 

 punctured. The pygidial arcaon seventh tergiteof abdomen 

 and the proj(>cting apical plate beyond are red. The tlagellum 

 is dusky red, almost black abcne. The third s.m. is l)ioad 

 al)ove and the third t.-c. is strongly bowed outward. Hind 

 tibi;c with approximately apical half black and basal half 

 orange-fulvous. Maxillary palpi short. 



Hah. llermannsburg, Central Australia (//. ./. IliUicr). 

 British Muscnin. 



The second known specimen and species of this remarkable 

 genus. 



CaUonuHita rujnso, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



(jeneral form as in C. jiicta; head and thorax with scanty, 

 shori, pale reddish hair ; head black, with the lower margm 

 of clypeus, labruni (which is emarginatc), and mandibles 

 (which arc thick, bidentatc at apex) obscure dark reil ; au- 

 icniue entirely bright ti rruginous ; entire head strongly and 

 (piite ch)sely punctured ; mesothorax terra-cotta red, cxce|)t 

 a large black jjatch in the posterior middle, the whole 

 appearing rugose from the strong and very dense punctures; 



