210 HYMENOPTERA. 



of first segment nearly black, and a pair of large dark lobes projecting 

 into the red apical portion ; apical segments entirely red. 



This may be compared with E. bicolor Smith, but it lacks 

 the dark stripes on the abdomen. 



Hab. — Mackay, Queensland, at flowers of Leptospermum , 

 Oct., 1898 {Turner 2a). British Museum. 



Euryglossa salaris sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 9 mm. ; head and thorax black, agreeing in gen- 

 eral with those of E. myrtacearum, but the punctures of the meso- 

 thorax large, with very minute ones between, and the puncturation 

 not very dense anywhere ; scutellum sculptured like the mesothorax ; 

 area of metathorax shining; face broad, front densely punctured; 

 flagellum ferruginous beneath; tegulae dark reddish; wings hyaline, 

 nervures and stigma dark reddish-brown ; venation as in E. myrta- 

 cearum, except that first r. n. enters second s. m. distinctly further 

 from base than second from apex ; legs black or brown-black, with 

 pale hair, the small joints of tarsi ferruginous ; hind spur coarsely ser- 

 rate ; abdomen ferruginous, not so broad in proportion to its length 

 as in E. myrtaceartim ; apical margins of segments with short pale 

 hair forming partial bands ; first segment dusky, clouded with red- 

 dish, lateral hind margins pallid ; second and third segments with a 

 transverse dark discal streak ; apical segments and venter light. 



Var. a. — Abdomen blackish, slightly metallic, the last three segments 

 red, and slight red shades on second and third, and about base of first. 



The mesothoracic punctures are considerably larger in this 

 species than in E. subsericea. 



Hab. — Mackay, Queensland; type, Nov., 1893 (Turner 

 865), var. a, same date (Turner 866). 

 Euryglossa subfusa sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 8^ mm. ; head and thorax shining black, with 

 scanty dull white hair; abdomen thick but parallel-sided, clear red, 

 with the first segment and basal half of second bluish-black ; clypeus 

 smooth, its lower margin conspicuously fringed with pale hair; a 

 delicate keel between antennas ; front with widely separated punc- 

 tures ; tongue prosopiform ; flagellum clear ferruginous beneath ; 

 mesothorax and scutellum with fine scattered punctures ; area of 

 metathorax shining ; tegulae dark rufo-fuscous ; wings hyaline, ner- 

 vures and stigma fuscous, venation practically as in E. salaris ; legs 

 black with pale hair, tarsi ferruginous at end ; abdomen dullish, seri- 

 ceous, the red part slightly purplish in certain lights, the apical seg- 

 ments wholly red. 



Hab. — Port Darwin, Australia, Dec, 1902 (Turner). 

 British Museum. 



