244 HYMENOPTERA. 



Spliecodes profugus sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 9 mm. ; head and thorax black, abdomen dark 

 castaneous, black at apex ; hair of head and thorax scanty and white, 

 more abundant on sides of thorax and on face ; head large, broader 

 than long (breadth about 3 mm.), but not nearly twice as broad as 

 long; mandibles black, faintly reddish in middle, with a well developed 

 inner tooth ; process of labrum deeply emarginate ; antennae entirely 

 black, third joint bulging beneath, flagellum short; front minutely 

 rugose ; mesothorax andscutellum shining, with large punctures, well- 

 separated except at sides ; base of metathorax shining, divided by 

 strong ridges into a number of irregular polygonal spaces ; tegulse 

 shining piceous ; wings moderately dusky, stigma and nervures very 

 dark brown ; second s. m. very narrow, receiving first r. n. some dis- 

 tance before its end ; third s. m. large ; legs black with light hair, 

 small joints of tarsi ferruginous ; hind spur simple ; no evident scopa, 

 abdomen shining, first segment with very minute widely scattered 

 punctures ; a slight depression at base of second segment (visible in 

 lateral profile); apex hairy. 



o 71 . Length about 7 mm., much less bulky ; abdomen lighter red, 

 distinctly punctured, the first segment much more distinctly and closely 

 than in the female; legs brownish ; scape very short ; flagellum robust 

 and long, very strongly crenulated, the joints nodose beneath. 



The tongue in this species is extremely short, forming 

 nearly an equilateral triangle. The sexes were associated 

 by the collector, and no doubt belong together, in spite of 

 the difference in abdominal punctuation. The insect is 

 allied to J?, biroi Friese, from New Guinea, but much larger. 



Had.— Mackay, Queensland, May, 1900 ( Turner, 94) . Brit- 

 ish Museum. The female is the type. 



Apis mellifera ligustica Spinola. 



Boulder, Colorado, freely visiting Tragopogon porrifolivs 

 L., sucking. Knuth cites no visitors of this plant. 



Gastropsis pubescens (Smith). 



Victoria, Australia (C. F; Turner collection). British 

 Museum. 



Emphor bombiformis (Cresson). 



Fedor, Texas, July, 1909, at flowers of a Malvaceous 

 plant, thought to be Fugosia {Birkmcmn) , Mr. Birkmann 

 writes that he has been collecting bees in this vicinity for 

 twenty-five years, and never saw Emphor until 1909. 



