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AUSTRALIAN BEES. i. A NEW CROCISA, WITH A 

 LIST OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF THE 



GENUS. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



(Communicated by W. W. Frogyatt, F.L.S.) 



Crocisa waroonensis, sp.nov. 



(J. Length 9 ram., expanse a little over 20. Markings (due to 

 hair) chalk-white; face, occiput and greater part of cheeks covered 

 with white hair, lower part of cheeks and underside of head with 

 black hair; labrum gibbous at sides; ocelli in a straight line; 

 vertex shining, veiy sparsely punctured ; flagellum obscurely 

 brownish beneath; mesothorax shining strongly, unevenly, not 

 densely punctured; anterior third, sides narrowly, and posterior 

 corners of mesothorax covered with long loose white hair; scu- 

 tellum with sparse small punctures, its posterior margin r-^ — .-like, 

 the posterior middle occupied by a quadrate patch of white hair, 

 twice as broad as long, white hair also extending from beneath 

 the margin; sides of metathorax with long white hair; pleura 

 with the upper half densely covered with white hair, the under 

 side of thorax with scanty black hair; tegulfe black, with very fine 

 punctures, and a patch of white hair in front; wings with the 

 basal half clear hyaline, the apical dark fuscous, clouded or 

 spotted with paler in the region of the cells; third submarginal 

 cell very narrow, but strongly bulging outwardly; anterior and 

 middle tibiae covered with white hair on outer and posterior side 

 except at apex; hind tibite with the apical half free from while 

 hair except posteriorly; middle and hind basitai'si with a little 

 white hair; hind basitarsi flattened and curved; abdomen rather 

 closely punctured, as follows : two transversely placed large hour- 

 glass-shaped ones on first segment; four spots or patches each on 

 second and third, the iimer round, the outer (especially on second) 

 large patches; two large patclies each on fourth and fifth; venter 

 with lateral spots of white hair. There is no basal spot on first 

 abdominal segment. 



