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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



reddish beneath ; mesothorax shining, finely and rather closety punctured ; area of 

 nietathorax very short, very minutely pUcate ; posterior truncation with a conspicuous 

 median pit ; tegulse bright ferruginous ; wings dusky hyaline, stigma and nervures 

 reddish sepia ; second submarginal cell broad ; legs black, mth the knees, anterior 

 tibiae (except a large black patch behind), apices of middle and hind tibiae, and all the 

 tarsi, clear ferruginous ; liind tibiae and tarsi with much white hair ; abdomen shining, 

 extremely finely punctured, hind margins of segments not discoloured ; aj)ical plate 

 broad and rounded, red ; venter with white hair. 



IVIicroscopical characters : Front densely striato-jaunctate ; mesothorax well 

 punctured on a smooth (not tessellate) ground ; area of nietathorax Mith vermiform 

 rugae ; second abdominal segment well punctured all over. 



Hab. : Sunnybank, Brisbane, Nov. 19, 1913 {Hacker 165). Allied to H. cambagsi 

 Ckll., but the head is not so broad, the mesothorax is more regularly and distinctly' 

 punctured, and the area of nietathorax is difl'erent. It is smaller than H. repertus 

 Ckll., mth smaller punctures of mesothorax, and shorter and more finely sculptured 

 area of nietathorax. 



MEGACHILE Latreille. 

 Megachile cetera Cockerell. 

 Brisbane, March 30, 1913 {Hacker 152). The female is easity distinguished from 

 31. quinquelineata Ckll. by the absence of black hair on hind tarsi. 



ALLODAPE Lepeletier. 



AUodape bribiensis Cockerell. 



Bribie Island, Nov. 2, 1913 {Hacker 166). A very small species. 



EXONEURA Smith. 



Abdomen black 

 Abdomen red 

 1. Face with a large pale yellow mark 

 Face all black 



botanica var. aterriina Ckll., n.v. 



1. 



tan Ckll. 



. . brisbanensis Ckll., n. sp. 



Exoneura botanica Ckll., var. aterima n. var. 



9- Larger than the type (length fully 5 mm.) ; abdomen all black, the hind 

 margin of segments not reddened. Considerably smaller than E. insularis CkU., \\ith 

 the tubercles creamy Avhite and the wings not reddened. 



Hab. : Brisbane, Sept. 1, 1914 {Hacker 157). 



Exoneura tau Cockerell. 

 2- Oxley, Brisbane, Sept. 17, 1914 {Hacker 154). The basal segments of the 

 abdomen are red, wholly without black markings. 



Exoneura brisbanensis n. sp. 



9 . Length about 5 mm. ; head and thorax shining black, abdomen rather 

 dark chestnut-red, the basal segment and a broad transverse band on second blackened; 

 face broad (but orbits distinctly converging below), shining, wholly without markings ; 

 niandibles black ; flagellum thick, clear red beneath, more dusky toward base ; tegulae 

 piceous ; wings reddish hyaline, stigma and nervures ferruginous ; legs black, with the 

 anterior and middle tarsi obscure red ; hind tibiae and tarsi A\ith coarse black hair on 

 outer side ; tubercles margined with creamy white. 



Hab. : Brisbane, Sept. 1, 1914 {Hacker 158). Related to E. froggattii Friese 

 and E. concinnula Ckll., but easily known by the black tibiae. 



