58 Mr. F. Smith's Descriptions of new 



Genus EuRYGLossA, Smith. 

 ] . Euryglossa ephippiata. 



Female. — Head and thorax black, the latter blood-red above ; 

 the abdomen nigro-seneous. The head closely and finely punc- 

 tured ; the clypeus shining, with scattered punctures ; the man- 

 dibles with their apex rufo-piceous, rounded at the tips, not 

 toothed. The thorax above, the scutellum and post-scutellum 

 red ; the wings fnsco-hyaline ; the nervures black. Abdomen of 

 a dark olive-green, with an obscure silky gloss. 



Length 4^ lines. 



Hab. Adelaide. 



In the Collection of the British Museum. 



2. Euryglossa licolor. 



Female. — The head and thorax black, the abdomen red. The 

 head and thorax shining, finely and distantly punctured ; the face 

 and vertex with a thin, pale golden-coloured pubescence, that on 

 the cheeks cinereous. The wings sub-hyaline, their nervures 

 pale testaceous. The abdomen ferruginous, with the base and a 

 transverse waved stripe across each segment fuscous. 



Length 4 lines. 



Hab. Adelaide. 



In the Collection of the British Museum. 



Genus Dasycolletes, Smith. 

 Dasycolletes ruhelliis. 



Female. — The head and thorax black, and clothed with beautiful 

 plumose pubescence ; the clypeus strongly punctured and shining ; 

 the head opaque, and finely and longitudinally rugose. Thorax 

 slightly shining, very closely and delicately punctured, with 

 stronger scattered punctures intermixed ; the scopa on the pos- 

 terior tibiae silvery-white beneath and fuscous above ; the legs 

 obscure rufo-fuscous, and clothed with glittering pale pubescence ; 

 the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures testaceous, the 

 costal nervure nearly black. Abdomen ferruginous ; its apical 

 segment black ; the apical margin of the fifth segment and the 

 sides of the sixth with sooty-black pubescence : the margins of 

 the segments beneath fringed with pale pubescence. 



Length 4g lines. 



Hab. South Australia — Lower Plenty. 



In the Collection of the British Museum. 



