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Euryglossa nubi!era sp. n. 

 Male. Length about 6 mm., black, the head and thorax with rather abundant 

 -dull white hair, and no light markings ; face broad but orbits converging below ; 

 clypeus dullish, with long pale hair, not conspicuously punctured ; mandibles dark 

 red apically ; front dull ; facial foveae linear ; antennae long and rather thick, 

 flagellum obscure reddish beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum dullish, without 

 evident punctures (the compound microscope shows a minutely tessellate surface) ; 

 tegulse dark, with broad reddish margin posteriorly ; wings hyaline, faintly dusky, 

 beautifully iridescent, with a large fuUginous apical cloud ; stigma pale reddish with 

 dark margin, nervures fuscous ; second submarginal cell large, receiving recurrent 

 nervures not very far from base and apex ; femora black with red knees ; tibiae and 

 tarsi bright ferruginous, the hind ones strongly infuscated posteriorly ; first three 

 abdominal segments dull black, with the broad hind margins (that on first reddish) 

 shining ; rest of abdomen shining ; apex with a red spoon-shaped plate ; venter 

 red, the second and third segments with dark transverse bands. 



Coolangatta, Queensland, 7-9-13 {Dr. A. J. Turner). Easily recognised by the 

 clouded apices of anterior wings. 



A female from Coolangatta. of the same date, was set apart as an entirely 

 different species, but on closer inspection it is evidently nuhifera. It is nearly 8 mm. 

 long, much more robust than the male, and the strongly dusky (brownish) wings have 

 the apical cloud indistinct though perceptible. The outer intercubitus has an angle 

 at the middle, from which proceeds an appendicular vein, and there is another 

 similar short appendicular vein near its lower end. These are only slightly indicated 

 in the male. The legs are coloured as in the male, except that the hind tibiae are black, 

 and their tarsi largely black. The face is broad, not hairy, the clypeus with very 

 few weak punctures. Flagellum ferruginous beneath except at base ; mandibles with 

 only a faint suggestion of red near apex ; facial foveae Hnear. The abdomen has the 

 first two segments dull, except the margins, the others shining. The mesothorax 

 and scutellum are dullish, without distinct punctures. There is black hair on the 

 abdomen just below the apex. 



Euryglossa jucunda Smith. 

 Female. Ebor, N.S.W., 1-1-16. Length about 7 mm. ; sides of face with 

 much white hair ; tegulse dark reddish-brown ; stigma same colour as tegulae ; only 

 mall joints of tarsi red. This is what I have determined a.^ jucunda, but it is possible 

 that actual comparison with the type from Western Austraha would show that 

 the form from New South Wales and Queensland is separable. It is also possible, 

 judging from Smith's account, that the original jucunda was a mixture of two 

 species. 

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