22 0 
D? H. FRIESE 
apical margins of the segments narrowly fringed with pale ochraceous 
pubescence ; the apical segment as well as the àbdomen beneath clothed 
with bright ferruginous. Long. 7 Va lines (= 6 mm). 
cT . — Similarly coloured to the j ; the tarsi elongate, the poste¬ 
rior coxæ and femora incrassate; the basal joint of the posterior tarsi 
has, in the middle within, a tuberculate blunt flattened process ; the 
tibiæ are very stout and slightly curved. 
Champio Bay (Australia) ; cT 5 von New-South Wales (Sydney) 
und Queensland (Mackay im Mai) Turner leg. 
Although both sexes are considerably larger than L. rubricatus, 
described in my Catalog, of Hym., from North-Australia, I am inclined 
to believe this may be a finely developped form of the same species 
the tubercle on the face of the ç , which is rudimentary in L. rubrica¬ 
tus, is the most marked distinctive character .» 
63. Lithurgus dentipes Sm. 
1853. ■— Lithurgus dentipes cT Smith, Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. I. p. 146. 
1870. — Lithurgus dentipes Horne, Trans. Zool. Soc. London VII. 3. p. 175. 
« cT . Black, the face has a clothing of very pale yellow pubescence, 
that on the sides of the thorax is fusco-griseous ; flagellum testaceous 
beneath, mandibles tridentate. Thorax the disk covered with ochraceous 
pubescence ; wings subhyaline, nervures ferruginous ; the legs beneath 
fringed with sooty-black pubescence; the apical joints of the tarsi rufo- 
testaceous, the claw-joint as long as the three preceding ones ; the 
posterior coxæ and femora incrassate, the latter somewhat flattened 
beneath and produced at its apex on each side, forming 2 flat broad 
teeth or spines (auch bei atratus) ; the spines which arm the apex of 
the tibiæ black, long and stout. Abdomen short, flat and having the 
margins slightly testaceous ; at the base, sides and apex a short black 
pubescence. L. 107a mm. 
Australia. » 
j . Bern J von L. atratus täuschend ähnlich, aber Kopf überall 
weiss behaart, Stirnhöcker mit halbkreisförmigem Rand, Clypeus fast 
nur weiss behaart, Vorder- und Hinterthorax rein weiss behaart, Abdo¬ 
men mit 5 deutlichen weissen und ganzen Fransenbinden, die ventral- 
wärts hell durch die Scopa scheinen. L. 14 mm. Br. 4 Va mm. 
New-South Wales (Sydney), Neu-Pommern (Kinigunang), Qeensland 
(Cairns). 
Stephansort. Hansemann-Gebirge auf Neu-Guinea, Biró leg; ferner 
von Sydney, Cairns (Queensld.) und Richmond River (Wollongbar), Bismarck 
