10 ANDRENIDJS. 



6. Lamprocolletes ruficornis. 



Female. Length 4§ lines. — Black ; the scape of the antennae black, 

 the flagellum. bright rufo-fulvous. The head and thorax densely 

 clothed with bright fulvous pubescence ; the tarsi, tibiae, and tips of 

 the femora rufo-fulvous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures 

 rufo-testaceous ; an enclosed space at the base of the metathorax 

 transversely striated. Abdomen pubescent, densely so at the base ; 

 the apical margin of the segments testaceous. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



7. Lamprocolletes bimaculatus. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head and thorax black, the abdomen 

 ferruginous. The face with fulvous pubescence, the cheeks bearded 

 with white ; the clypeus shining and with a. few scattered punc- 

 tures ; the flagellum obscure fulvous beneath. Thorax with a thin 

 short fulvous pubescence above, on the sides and beneath it is 

 hoary ; the tibiae, tarsi, and tips of the femora ferruginous ; the 

 scopa on the posterior tibiae is white beneath and fuscous above ; 

 wings hyaline and iridescent, their apical margins slightly clouded, 

 the nervures ferruginous, the tegulae rufo-piceous. Abdomen ovate 

 and somewhat depressed ; the second segment with an ovate black 

 macula laterally ; the apical segments more or less fusco-ferrugi- 

 nous ; beneath, the segments are fringed with white pubescence. 



Hab. Swan River. 



8. Lamprocolletes bicolor. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head and thorax green, abdomen dark 

 blue. The face thinly covered with hoary pubescence, on the 

 cheeks it is dense and white ; the clypeus with strong punctures. 

 Thorax thinly clothed above with pale fuscous pubescence, beneath 

 and on the legs it is whitish ; the mesothorax with strong scattered 

 punctures ; the tibiae in front and the tarsi rufo-fulvous ; wings 

 hyaline and iridescent, the nervures dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 shining blue, with a little pale pubescence at its base. The legs 

 sometimes entirely rufo-piceous. 



Male. Length 3^ lines. — Closely resembling the female, but the 

 head and thorax black or very obscurely nigro-aeneous ; the legs 

 black, the posterior pair above and the tarsi and tibiae rufo- 

 fulvous. 



Hab. Swan Eiver. 



9. Lamprocolletes antennatus. 



Male. Length 4^ lines.- — Black: the antennae with the flagellum 

 fulvous, above more or less fuscous ; the apical joint black, com- 



