16 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



made for the description of the pubescence. The specimen from 

 Victoria was collected by Mr. F. du Bonlay. I have described 

 this curious bee at some length, because I think it may form a 

 new genus ; but, in the absence of a more complete knowledge 

 than we as yet possess of the mouth-parts of Gastropsis imhescens, 

 it seems best to defer the proposal of a generic name. I have 

 elsewhere (Canad. Entom. 1904, p. 304) stated that Gastropsis 

 appears to be allied to Meliturga. G. victorice has many characters 

 that remind one of Meliturga, but the elongated tongue and labial 

 palpi of the latter are very different. However, it is known that 

 among the Andrenids and Halictids allied forms may differ much 

 in the length of the tongue and palpi, and I am not inclined to 

 believe that the resemblances just mentioned are illusory. It is 

 much to be desired that we should learn something about the 

 habits of Gastropsis. 



Anthoglossa aureotincta, n. sp. 

 ? . Length about 13 mm. ; black, with the hind margins of the 

 first four abdominal segments pale orange-golden, the first rather 

 narrowly, the others broadly, and with overlapping white hairs, form- 

 ing thin marginal bands. Head broad ; facial quadrangle a little 

 broader than long ; antennae entirely black, except that the flagellumj 

 may be called brown-black beneath ; clypeus with very large punc- 

 tures ; anterior margin of clypeus and the convex labrum dark ferru- 1 

 ginous ; mandibles slender, not elbowed, bidentate, bright red in the' 

 middle ; hair of sides of face, and cheeks, long and white ; of region 

 around antennae, and occiput, tawny ; mesothorax dull, minutely 

 granular, its rather short hair fuscous-tipped, its plumosity so fiue as 

 to be visible only with the compound microscope ; hair below tegulas 

 tawny, but lower down it is white ; tegulfe dark brown, microscopically 

 tessellate; area of metatborax with a dull subsericeous surface, which 

 under the compound microscope is seen to be entirely covered with an 

 exceedingly minute raised network ; wings nearly clear, with light 

 purple iridescence ; stigma obsolete ; nervures piceous ; second s. m. 

 broad, not greatly narrowed above, receiving the first r. n. about its 

 middle ; third s. m. very long, much longer than second, but not so 

 long as first, and receiving the second r. n. near its end ; marginal cell 

 long, narrowly truncate ; basal nervure falling a little short of t. m. ; 

 legs black, with copious hair, which has more or less of a golden tint, 

 tbat on hind femora long and loose, conspicuously plumose ; there is 

 no knee-plate at base of hind tibia, but there is a more or less defined 

 area, on which the hair is short and dark coppery fuscous ; basal 

 joints of middle and hind tarsi much broadened and flattened, the 

 second joint also larger tbau usual, and heart-shaped ; abdomen broad, 

 with a sericeous surface ; apical fimbria copious and pale chocolate- 

 colour. 



Hah. Perth, W. Australia (H. W. J. Turner). Closely 

 allied to A. sericea, Smith, but differing in the colour of the 

 flagellum, tegulae, tibiae, and tarsi, as well as the apical fimbria. 

 These species are not very close to A. plumata, and they will 



