SOME VEKY SMALL AUSTRALIAN BEES. 263 



as high ; basal nervure falling about 50 short of transversomedial, 

 which is vertical ; recurrent nervure to transversocubital about 35. 



Named after Gilbert Turner, who collected so many new 

 insects in Queensland.* 



Type in British Museum. 



3 EuRYGLOssELLA, u. gen. 



Small bees allied to Euryglossa, but with only one submarginal 

 cell and one (the first) discoidal ; the basal nervure ends a long way 

 from the transversomedial, and its lower section is hardly arched ; 

 claws bidentate, pulvillus very large. 



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Fiuryglossella minima , n. sp. 

 ? . Length about 3| mm. ; head and thorax black or brown- 

 black, shining ; clypeus and mandibles (except apex) dull rufofulvous ; 

 antennjfi dark above, pale fulvous beneath ; face broad, eyes slightly 

 converging below ; foveae linear, short, close to eye ; base of mandible 

 makes an angle of about 50° with base of eye ; clypeus very broad and 

 low, its straight upper margin about 290 fi long, the lower about 620 ; 

 labrum with a pair of nodules ; scape rather long (about 255 //) ; 

 second antennal joint large, pyriform, third minute ; fiagellum short 

 and thick, minutely hairy ; femora, except knees, very dark brown ; 

 middle and hind tibiae dark brown, pale reddish at base and apex, 

 anterior tibiae fulvous ; tarsi pallid, slightly yellowish ; small joints 

 of anterior tarsi, and apices of their basitarsi, with curious hooked 

 bristles ; mesothorax, front and vertex microscopically tessellate ; 

 abdomen shining, practically hairless, dark brown with a slight purple 

 lustre ; wings clear hyaline, iridescent, the large stigma (its depth 

 rather over 100) margined with brown ; marginal cell 425 long, 

 sharply pointed on costa, deep for its length ; submarginal cell from 

 lower basal to upper apical corner 34:0 ; discoidal measured in the 

 same way 270 ; basal nervure ending 150 from transversomedial. 



-^ Euryglossa perpusilla,n. sp. 



5 . Length about 3| mm. ; head and thorax shining black, abdo- 

 men dark reddish, with a strong purple lustre, and without evident 

 hair ; antennae fuscous above, pale below ; legs clear pale yellow, 

 middle tibiae mainly fuscous behind ; hind tibiae fuscous behind, pale 

 ferruginous in front, their tarsi pale ferruginous ; eyes very strongly 

 converging below ; clypeus about 230 /x across at top, and 275 below 

 (the shape thus entirely different from that of Eiiryglos sella), wholly 

 dark, with sparse punctures ; supraclypeal area with a broad trans- 

 verse orange band, bounding lower suture ; mandibles set at an angle 



'■'•'- Mr. Rowland Turner kindly gives me the following mformation about 

 his brother : — "He was resident at Mackay from 1883 to 1901 with me, and 

 made a very large collection. We afterwards did a season's collecting at 

 Cairns, after which I went to Cape York and Assam, while he went round by 

 Cooktown and Port Darwin, but caught cold at Hongkong, and died of rapid 

 consumption after joining me at Assam in 1903. It had been his intention 

 to return to England and work up his collection, probably beginning with 

 the bees." 



