Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 



Vol. 11 JULY. 1914 No. 7 



AUSTRALIAN BEES OF THE FAMILY 

 PROSOPIDID>E 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL 



The following bees, collected in Queensland, have just been received 

 from the Queensland Museum, through the kindness of Dr. R. Hamlyn- 

 Harris. Duplicates have been retained in the Queensland Museum. 



Prosopis cenibera Cockerell. 



Sunnybank, Brisbane, November 19, 1913 (Hacker ; Queensland 

 Mus., 111). 



Prosopis pulchripes, new species. 



Male : Length scarcely 4 mm. ; extremely slender, with a claviform 

 abdomen narrowed at base ; antennae very long, about 2 mm. ; black, 

 marked with clear lemon yellow; abdomen rufopiceous, vsath extreme 

 base of second segment, broader base of third with adjacent apex of sec- 

 ond, 2Uid base of fourth more obscurely, pale ferruginous ; head rather 

 broad, face shining ; mandibles, labrum, and face below level of antennae 

 all yellow, the supraclyp)eal mark Wge, quadrate, rounded above, lateral 

 marks broadly extended up sides of front, ending in a point, at an angle 

 of about SO**, at level of middle of front ; a small yellow mark on cheeks 

 behind mandibles ; middle of front strongly depressed ; scape yellow in 

 front ; flagellum very pede reddish beneath, black above ; thorax elonga- 

 ted, mesothorax and scutellum shining, very finely punctured ; scutellum 

 wholly black ; area of metathorax dull ; upper border of prothorax, and 

 tubercles, very pale yellow ; tegulae pellucid testaceous ; wings clear hya- 

 line, nervures and the large stigma dark fuscous, outer t. c. and r. n. 

 weakened ; b. n. falling very far short of t. m. ; first r. n. joining apical 



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