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Anthobosca clypeata Turn. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. xxxii. 

 p. 522 (1907). 



This appeals to be a most variable species as to colour. The 

 type, said by Smith to come from Champion Bay, though it is 

 labelled "Swan River," has the second, third, and fourth dorsal 

 and second and third ventral segments broadly banded with 

 ferruginous ; specimens from the Warren River, S.W. Australia, 

 are without the bands on the fourth dorsal and third ventral 

 segments, but are undoubtedly of the same species. In the 

 Australian Museum are specimens from Albany, W. A., collected 

 by Masters, in which the thorax is richly variegated with yellow, 

 and a form from Cunderdin in the West Australian Museum has 

 the markings on the abdomen also yellow. Not having been 

 able to compare these last two forms, I cannot be sure that they 

 belong to the same species, though the neuration agrees, both 

 recurrent nervures being received by the second cubital cell. 

 With the Warren River females in the South Australian Museum 

 is a male closely resembling A, crassicomis Sm., but differing in 

 having the abdomen black, with the two apical segments ferru- 

 ginous, and the antennae distinctly shorter and stouter than in 

 the type. The latter difference must, I think, be specific, so 

 that crassicomis cannot be the male of clyjwata, though it must 

 belong to a nearly related species. 



Anthobosca fastuosa Sm. 



Dimorphoptera fastuosa Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1868, 

 p. 240, 2 ■ 



Anthobosca fastuosa Turn. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. xxxii. 

 p. 521 (1907), $._. 



The type from Champion Bay has the three apical segments of 

 the abdomen black. A specimen in Mr. Froggatt's collection 

 from Southern Cross, W. A., has these segments ochraceous, so 

 that the abdomen is all of one colour, giving the specimen a very 

 strong resemblance to the female of Scolia (Trielis) flavulnla Sm. 

 This is probably only a colour variety, though it may possibly 

 prove to be distinct. 



Family Psammocharida 



Calopompilus xanthochrous, sp. n. 



2 . Niger ; mandibulis apice, femoribus, tibiis tarsisque ferru- 

 gineis ; alis flavis, fusco bivittatis, mavgine apicali insuper 

 infuscatis. 



Long. 7-10 mm. 



5 . Mandibles bidentate ; clypeus short, very broadly truncate 

 at the apex ; antennas slender, second joint of the flagellum 

 a little longer than the third, shorter than the third and first 



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