AUSTRALIAN BEES OF THE FAMILY PROSOPIDID/E 99 



Euryglossa anthracocephala, new species. 



Female: Length 5f mm.; robust, head and thorax coal black; head 

 without pale markings ; tubercles broadly lemon yellow, but no other 

 light markings on thorax ; mandibles obscure reddish ; face shining, not 

 hairy ; clypeus microscopically reticulate, and with speirse small punctures ; 

 scape slightly stained with reddish ; flagellum rather long, wholly dark ; 

 mesothorax shining, duller in hont and at sides ; scuteUum shining ; area 

 of metathorax smooth and polished ; tegulae fuscous, but a pale lemon 

 yellow callus at base of wings ; wings reddish-hyaline, stigma and ner- 

 vures rufofuscous ; first r. n. joining extreme basal comer of second s. m. ; 

 second s. m. broad, not produced above ; legs reddish-black, anterior 

 knees and tibiae in front yellow ; anterior femora swollen ; hind basitarsi 

 and apex of tibiae behind covered with silvery-white hair ; hind spur very 

 finely pectinate ; abdomen broad, rather light reddish suffused with dusky, 

 segments 2 to 4 with large lemon-yellow laterobasal spots ; venter pale 

 red, without markings. 



Habitat : At flowers of Eugenia, Brisbane, December 5, 1913 

 (Hacker ; Queensland Mus., 1 02). Resembles E. maculata Sm., but 

 easily distinguished by the color of the legs. 



Euryglossa hemixantha, new species. 



Male : Length about 4^- mm. ; black, the abdomen dark red-brown, 

 with the apex pale rufotestaceous ; head very broad ; mandibles (except 

 rufous apex), labrum, clypeus, low transversely elongate supraclypeal mark, 

 lateral face marks and scape, all bright lemon yellow ; lateral face marks 

 broad below, fiUing space between clypeus and eye, suddenly truncate at 

 level of antennae, but with a short linear process extending beyond along 

 orbit (the whole like a closed, gloved hand, with index finger pointed) ; 

 flagellum long, the basal two-thirds dull pale brovm beneath ; front dull ; 

 disk of mesothorax somewhat shining ; scuteUum and base of metathorax 

 shining ; tubercles broadly yellow ; tegulae testaceous, with a cream- 

 colored spot ; v^ngs hyaline, stigma and nervures sepia ; both recurrent 

 nervures meeting the transversocubitals ; second s. m. broad ; legs bright 

 lemon yellow ; middle tarsi fuscous apically ; hind femora with a dark 

 fuscous apical patch above ; hind tibiae piceous, with a rufous apical patch 

 behind ; hind tarsi brown ; abdomen rather broad, pale rufous at apex, 

 second and third segments each with a small transverse yellow patch at 

 side basally ; venter yellow, suffused by ferruginous apically. 



