AUSTRALIAN BEES IN THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM.— COCKEEELL. 27.> 



Pachyprosopis barbata Cockerell. 

 Male. Sunnybank, Brisbane, 19-11-13 {Hacker) ; Tambourine, 23-10-12. 



CERATINID^. 



NEOCERATINA Perkins. 



Neoceratina australensis Perkins. 



Glen Innes, N.S.W., April 28, 1916. One female. The mesothorax and 

 scutellum are dark-green. Previously known from Queensland. 



EXONEURA Smith. 

 Exoneura insular! s Cockerell. 

 Stradbroke Island, five females, Sept. 17, 1915 (Hacker). 



Exoneura bicolor Smith. 

 Armidale, N.S.W., 5-2-15, two females ; Stanthorpe, Q., 6-11-14, one female. 



Exoneura nitida n. sp. 



Female. Length about 6 mm. ; black, with the margins of the foirth and 

 fifth abdominal segments very narrowly and often hardly perceptibly reddened ;. 

 eyes rather pale purplish-brown ; face and front highly polished and shining ; face 

 broad, orbits slightly converging below ; clypeus with a very broad creamy- white 

 band, broadest above where it occupies the whole width of the clypeus ; flagellum 

 obscurely brownish beneath ; thorax and first three segments of abdomen smooth 

 and shining ; tubercles cream-colour ; tegulse black ; wings dilute brown, stigma and 

 nervures very dark ; under side of thorax with short pale hair ; hind tibiae and tarsi 

 with much black hair. 



Male. Length about 6 ram. ; similar to this .sex of E. aterrima, but larger, 

 head broader, eyes larger, reddish-brown ; white (creamy- white) area on face broader ; 

 wings browner. The face is bare, except for a very scanty short pale pubescence. 



Stradbroke Island, Q., Sept. 17, 1915, four females, 1 male (Hacker). Very 

 close to E. aterrima (Ckll.), but larger, with brownish wings and black legs. Also 

 near E. botanica Ckll., but differing in the legs and other characters. 



Exoneura robusta n. sp. 



Female (Type). Length about 6-5 mm. ; robust, black, the very broad abdomen 

 shining dark chestnut-red ; with the first segment (except apical margins laterally), 

 nearly all of second, and a transverse arched band on third, black ; face very broad, 

 orbits not converging ; clypeus with a broad cream-coloured band, which in the 

 type specimen is urn-shaped and pointed below, but in others variable, hooked at 



