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Palseorhiza melliceps n.sp. Brisbane, June 13, 1912. (182.) 



2. Jjength somewhat over 8 mm. ; slender, with unusually long and narrow 

 abdomen ; black ; head mainly chrome yellow, but base beneath, vertex, and front 

 except sides black ; the long clypous and supraclypoal area are stained with red, and 

 the cl3'peus has a broad dusky shade on each side ; head oblong, the face relatively 

 long and narrow ; antennae ferruginou.s, the flagellum blackish above ; mesothorax 

 and scutclluni dullish, but area of metathorax polished ; upper border of prothorax 

 (not reaching tubercles), tubercles, large patch behind them, broad bands along 

 posterior halves of sides of mesothorax, and axillise, all bright chrome j'ellow ; tegulse 

 dark reddish ; wings dusky, stigma and nervuros black ; second submarginal cell 

 broad, receiving recurrent nervures about equally far from base and apex ; b.n. falling 

 short of t.m. ; legs black, anterior knees and tibiae in front red, anterior femora and 

 tibi;e mainly j'cllow behind ; abdomen strongly constricted at apex of first segment. 



A very distinct species, which may I think be safelj' referred to Palaeorhiza, 

 though the male is unknown. The colour and markings are unique. 



Euryg'lossa hypoleuca n. sp. Brisbane, Feb. 15, 1916. (186.) 



^. Length about 5 mm. ; robust, black, the hind margins of abdominal seg- 

 ments broadly testaceous, the first segment ferruginous apically ; head and thorax 

 dull, the sculpture excessively tine, the sides of the front striate : face broad, ivory 

 colour below antennae, the lateral marks wdth linear extension halfway uji sides of 

 front, clypevis with a small pale-fuscous spot on each side ; labrum and mandibles 

 white, the latter with cutting edge red ; a small white spot behind eyes at base ; scape 

 pale yellowish in front, flagellum clear ferruginous beneath ; postscutellum with 

 conspicuous white hair ; upper border of prothorax and tubercles white, the band 

 slightly interrupted in middle, and also faiUng to reach tubercles ; tegulse ferruginous ; 

 wings hyaline, the veins fuscous, first r.n. joining base of second s.m. ; knees, and 

 anterior tibia; except a small spot, pale reddish ; mid and hind tibia' white, suffused 

 with reddish basally ; basitarsi white ; abdomen dullish, very finely pruinose. 



Very close to Euryglossa albocuneata Ckll.. ot which only the female is known. 

 In E. albocuneata the second r.n. joins second s.m. well before the end, so it seems 

 probable that hypoleuca is not the male of albocuneata, since it differs in this feature 

 of the venation. There is a possibility, however, that the venation varies, and the 

 two are sexes of a single sjiecies. These insects are intermediate between Proscpis 

 and Euriiglossa and should perhaps be sejoarated generically from both. 



Euryglossa semicastanea n. sp. Brisbane, Feb. 1.5, 1916. (183.) 



$. Length about 6 mm. ; robust, head and thorax black, abdomen chestnut 

 red; labrum, mandibles (except apex), lower part of clypeus suffu.sedly, and narrow 

 lateral stripes extending along orbits to a little above antennae, deep red ; antennae 

 chestnut red above and below ; mesothorax dull, extremely finely punctured ; scutellum 

 with larger, more distinct punctures ; area of metathorax large, entirely dull ; tegulae 

 black ; wings slightly dusk}? ; stigma large but rather short, amber colour ; b.n. meeting 

 t.m., second s.m. broad ; knees, tibiae, and tarsi deep red ; abdomen without bands. 



Quite distinct from E. semirufa Ckll., E. edwardsii, Ckll., &c. 



