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female broad and pyriform ; in male very broad, constricted 

 below middle, with a narrow lateral mark (sharply pointed 

 above) on each side. Plenra of male not conspicuously 

 hairy as it is in A. simiUhna. 



Hub. Yarrawin, N.S.W. {Froggatt, 219 c), 2 c? , 1 ? . 



Evidently a distinct species, but close to A. siinillima. 

 The form of the face-mark in the female readily distinguishes 

 it from A. unicolor. Sm. 



Exoneura clarissima, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 5 mm. 



Black, the abdomen bright ferruginous, dusky at sides of 

 apex, and the first segment black with a narrow red apical 

 margin; mandibles black, Avith a broad orange band just 

 before the apex ; labrum and clypeus white, the white of the 

 clypeus notched on each side below the middle, and the part 

 below the notch appearing especially broad because a very- 

 narrow white lateral face-mark (not reaching eye) is con- 

 tiguous with it on each side ; eyes large, but not remarkably 

 so; scape and second antennal joint white in front, fiagelluui 

 dull ferruginous beneath ; thorax shining; tubercles apically 

 white. Wings hyaline, not reddened ; knees broadly, and 

 all the tibiaj and tarsi, bright ferruginous. 



Bab. Yarrawin, N.S.VV. {Froggatt, 224. c). 



lleadily known by the small size and broad white face- 

 patch, broadly truncate above. There are several small 

 species known only in the female, but it does not seem 

 probable that E. clarissima belongs with any of them. 



Andrena jacobtea, sp. n. 



? . — Length a little over 12 ram. 



Black, the head, thorax, and two basal segments of abdo- 

 men with ferruginous hair, very bright fox-red on head and 

 thorax above, but black on upper half of cheeks, sides of 

 front overlapping fovese, and lower part of sides of meta- 

 thorax ; legs witli hair mostly black, but dark coppery 

 reddish on inner side of tarsi, light ferruginous on under side 

 of anterior and middle femora, long and abundant on anterior 

 femora ; long curled floccus on hind trochanters also light 

 ferruginous ; first two dorsal abdominal segments with 

 fulvous hair, the others with black hair, with fulvous inter- 

 mixed on third, and slightly on fourth ; venter with black 

 hair. The abdomen is not at all banded. Facial quadrangle 



