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Trigona eincta Mocsary. 



This species was described from New Guinea. In the 

 Berlin Museum are four specimens from Australia (Her- 

 mannsburg, Finke River, V. Leonhardi) . One of these has 

 been labelled " eincta? " by Friese, and they seem to agree 

 well with Mocsary's description, except that they are dis- 

 tinctly larger, up to 5 mm. long. They are allied to T. 

 essingtoni Ckll., but easily separated by the coloration of the 

 clypeus. 

 Trigona cassise sp. nov. 



Very like T. carbonaria Sm., and is, perhaps, the species 

 recorded from Mackay by Friese as carbonaria. In the 

 worker the mesothorax is very smooth and shining ; axillae 

 black ; the prominent scutellum with a broad transverse 

 dusky yellowish band, and all its hair dark fuscous ; tubercles 

 light-spotted ; upper border of prothorax not hairy ; ner- 

 vures and stigma reddish fuscous, not very dark. In the 

 male the flagellum is entirely pale fulvous beneath (obscurely 

 reddish in carbo?iaria); the last joint is less flattened, while 

 in carbonaria it is so flat at end as to appear very acutely 

 pointed in lateral view ; face narrower below than in carbon- 

 aria, scutellum not pale-banded. Smith does not describe 

 the male of carbonaria, but I have specimens from Sydney, 

 N. S. W. 



Hab. — Mackay, Queensland, worker at flowers of Cassia, 

 Dec, 1899 {Turner, 900); male, Nov., 1891 {Turner, 318). 

 The worker is the type. 



Andrena cyprica sp. nov. 



o 71 . Length about 13j mm., expanse nearly 24; entirely black, the 

 head and thorax rough, the abdomen shining, nude, without bands ; 

 hair entirely black or brown-black (more evidently nigrofuscous on 

 head and thorax above), except on inner side of tarsi, where it is 

 ferruginous; the basitarsi at apex, and all the small joints, are ferru- 

 ginous; head broad, facial quadrangle much broader than long; the 

 abundant black hair of face erect; clypeus densely punctured, but 

 shining between the punctures ; process of labrum sharply bidentate ; 

 mandibles long, falciform, not toothed at base; cheeks extremely 

 broad, but the posterior angle rounded; antenna? entirely dark, the 

 flagellum thick ; third antennal joint much longer than fourth or fifth, 

 fourth a little shorter than fifth ; mesothorax well punctured, but the 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC.XXXVI. (*31) AUGUST, 1910. 



