208 HYMENOPTERA. 



much broader than the intervals between them, the lateral ones clavi- 

 form ; lower part of mesopleura with a large black patch ; area of 

 metathorax shining black, with an irregular (lobulate) central yellow 

 spot, the black also continued as a broad band down below the area ; 

 tegulae with a yellow spot in front, bordered by brown and posteriorly 

 testaceous hyaline; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma 

 very pale yellowish ; lower part of b. n. strongly arched, falling far 

 short of t. m. ; first r. n. meeting first t. c. ; marginal cell sharply 

 pointed ; legs yellow ; anterior femora broad and flattened, with a 

 large black mark behind ; anterior and middle tibiae with a dark 

 brown stripe behind ; hind tibiae black and hairy on posterior side ; 

 tarsi reddish, hind ones fuscous ; abdomen with very broad entire 

 dark brown bands on first four segments, and two large marks on 

 fifth ; venter yellow. 



Related to E. quadrimaculata and E. calliopsiformis, but 

 very distinct. It is curiously similar to some species of 

 Perdita, especially P. punctosignata. 



Hab. — Mackay, Queensland, Jan., 1897 {Turner 459). 

 British Museum. 



Euryglossa calliopsella sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 6 mm. ; close to E. calliopsiformis Ckll., but dif- 

 fering as follows : yellow markings rather pale ; clypeus with only 

 lateral (small) black marks; frontal mark subtriangular, broadly con- 

 nected with supraclypeal ; the broad lateral marks reaching as high as 

 top of frontal, obliquely truncate, the longer side inner ; sides of pro- 

 thorax yellow with a narrow black stripe ; sides of mesothorax ante- 

 riorly with yellow lateral bands, curving round in front and becoming 

 continuous with the longitudinal (discal) yellow lines; lower part of 

 pleura marked with yellow; anterior femora broad, yellow above and 

 in front, middle femora yellow with the lower edge brown ; abdomen 

 with very broad yellow bands at bases of segments, that on fifth inter- 

 rupted ; first segment also with a yellow spot on each extreme side ; 

 venter fuscous. The hind spur is coarsely serrate. 



The venation differs from that of E. perditiformis, in that 

 the first r. n. joins the second s. m. a long distance from its 

 base. 



Hab. — Victoria (C. F. ). Turner collection. Two in 

 British Museum. 



Euryglossa semipurpurea sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 3h mm. ; head and thorax black (front and ver- 

 tex a little brassy), abdomen dark reddish-purple; head broad, an- 

 tennae close together, the sockets depressed ; front shining ; upper part 



