330 T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



IVIelissode* atropos Sm. 9 (T.). 



Santarem, Brazil. Scutellum broad and flat, very shiny, punc- 

 tured ; wings fuliginous, first r. n. joining second s. in. well before 

 its end, outer margin of third s. in. very sharply angled ; hair of 

 hind tibia black, bristle- like, plumose, though not apically ; abdo 

 men black and shining, strongly punctured, a small spot of white 

 hair on each side of apical margin of fourth segment; apical half 

 of venter with lateral tufts of white hair. 



Melissodes n. sp. ? 



Constancia, Brazil, January, 1857, J. Gray. Very peculiar; 

 second and third abdominal segments with glittering bands of 

 appressed light golden hair, that on third very broad ; the fourth 

 has a few golden hairs ; first r. n. joining second s. in. at its extreme 

 apex. This species bears a manuscript name of Smith's, which if 

 published now would be a homonym. 



SAROPODA Latr. 



Large, with deuse bright orange-red pubescence (Australia). 



bombiforiiiis Sm. 



Smaller, abdomen banded ; pubescence of thorax with much black intermixed. 



(Europe) bimaculata Pz. 



S. bombiformis has the maxillary palpi 4-jointed, the second joint 

 extremely long, the fourth black and spine like ; the labial palpi 

 have only one free joint. 



S. bimaculata has the same, except that the fourth joint of max 

 illary palpi is ordinary. The basal nervure in bimaculata passes 

 slightly basad of t. in., but in bombiformis it falls short of it. The 

 appearance of S. bombiformis recalls Xeuoglossa patricia. 



PACHYMELUS Smith. 

 This is a valid genus of Anthophorini, though Dalla Torre makes 

 it a subgenus of Podalirius, and Ashmead omits it altogether from 

 his tables. P. micrelephas Sm. from Madagascar is gigantic, over 

 30 mm. long. P. conspicuous Sm. from Nyassa is smaller. Both 

 have 5-jointed maxillary palpi; galea thick, not especially elonga- 

 ted ; the maxillary palpi are less than half the length of the galea. 

 The paraglossse are not hairy ; in P. micrelephas they are long and 

 narrow, about half the length of the labial palpi, which are very 

 broad sheathing basally ; but in P. conspicuus the paraglossse are 



