AUSTRALIAN FOSSORIAL WASPS. 67 



Calopompilus auropilosellus, sp. n. 



$ . Nigra, aureo-sericea ; mandibulis, clypeo apice, scapo 

 subtus, flagello basi, tegulis, ano, perlibnsque ferrugineis : alis 

 flavis, nigro-trifasciatis. 



cT . Feminse similis; flagello nigro. 

 Long., § 13 mm.; J 1 11mm. 



9 . Clypeus broad and short, broadly subtruncate at the 

 apex ; labrum slightly exposed, subtruncate at the apex. 

 Antenna? rather short and stout; second joint of the flagellum 

 about as long as the first and third combined, third a little 

 longer than the fourth. E} 7 es almost parallel on the inner 

 margin ; ocelli in a small triangle, the posterior pair twice 

 as far from the eyes as from each other. Scutellum broadly 

 subtruncate at the apex ; median segment with a deep median 

 sulcus. Abdomen subopaque, the second ventral segment with 

 a distinct transverse groove near the base; pygidium broad. 

 The whole insect more or less densely clothed with golden 

 pubescence, most closely on the posterior margin of the pro- 

 notum, the pleurae, the median segment, and the apical angles 

 of the dorsal segments. Hind tibia? spinose, distinctly serrate 

 on the outer side. Second abscissa of the radius about equal 

 to the third ; first recurrent nervure received at two-fifths 

 from the base of the second cubital cell, second at three-fifths 

 from the base of the third cubital cell. Cubitus of the hind wing 

 interstitial with the transverse median nervure. The black 

 bands on the fore wing are broad and completely cross the* 

 wing, the first on the basal nervure, the second from the base 

 of the radial cell, the third is apical-; the two latter converge 

 towards the low T er margin. 



Hab. Mt. Wellington, Tasmania, 2200 ft. ; January to March. 



The male diffei's in having the flagellum wholly black, the 

 margins of the abdominal segments pale ferruginous ; the second 

 joint of the flagellum a little shorter than the third. 



The colour of the wings is similar to that of C. molestus Sm., 

 but the antenna? are shorter and stouter, the hind tibia? more 

 distinctly serrate, the position of the recurrent nervures very 

 different, also the colour of the pubescence. The antenna? are 

 not quite so stout and short as in pictipennis Sm. 



Calopompilus protervus, sp. n. 



5 . Nigra, albopubescens ; segmentis dorsalibus fascia apicali 

 interrupta albopilosa ; alis fuscis, cellula radiali macula apicali, 

 cellulaque discoidali secunda striga basali flavis ; segmentis 

 analibus lateribus valde compressis ; tibiis posticis basi albo- 

 maculatis. 



Long. 19 mm. 



$ . Clypeus broadly subtruncate at the apex ; the labrum 

 exposed, narrowly and shallowly emarginate at the apex, a long 

 seta springing from each of the angles of the emargination. 



5* 



