350 Descnptions and Records of Bees. 



EurygJossa 'platyrMna, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about G*5 mm. 



Very broad, with thin white hair, lon^ on cheeks, pleura, 

 sides of metathorax, and sides of abdomen beneath ; dense 

 liair frinjring tubercles brownish white ; head and thorax 

 l)laek, without ])ale markings^ except that the depressed and 

 ikittened clypeus is pale yellowish ferruginous (the margins 

 and upper corners variably fuscous), and this colour may 

 extend to form a transverse supraclypeal band ; abdomen 

 dull, light ferruginous, with the following conspicuous black 

 or piceous marks: — a broad transverse band on middle half 

 of first segment, a large subcircular patch on each side of 

 second, a very broad band on middle third of second, a 

 ti'ausverse patch on middle of third, and a slight shade on 

 i'ourth ; mandibles dark, very obscurely rufescent just before 

 apex ; labial palpi peculiar, first joint greatly swollen, largely 

 piceous, second about half as wide as first, piceous except at 

 ends, about twice as long as wide, third and fourth p:de 

 ferruginous, long and slender, the fourth longest (about 

 225 microns) ; maxillary palpi extremely small, six-jointed, 

 the basal joint dark, the others pale ferruginous ; clypeus 

 dullish, with very sparse and minute punctures ; front dull, 

 with small scattered punctures; cheeks very small, the whole 

 head remarkably flat ; scape and Hagetlum pale reddish 

 testaceous beneath ; mesothorax dull, with widely scattered 

 very small punctures ; scutellum more sliining ; area of 

 metathorax smooth and shining; tegulse hyaline. Wings 

 hyaline, faintly dusky, stigma and nervures dull ferruginous ; 

 b. n. falling some distance short of t.-ra. ; first r. n. joining 

 second s.m. near base ; second s.m. broad, second t.-c. regu- 

 larly arched outward. Legs hairy, black or piceous and 

 ferruginous, the basal third and anterior sides of anterior 

 and middle tibise, anterior and middle knees, hind tibia? 

 entirely, and greater part of hind femora ferruginous ; 

 middle femora broad, convex in profile below ; bind spurs 

 of hind tibiaj with two rows of short strong tooth-like spines. 

 Pygidial plate of abdomen verv small. 



Hah. Yallmgup, Dec. 23-Jan. 14, 1913-14 {U. E. Turner) ; 

 3 ? . British Museum. 



A peculiar and distinct species, not a typical Euryglossa. 

 It could be made the type of a distinct genus or subgenus, 

 but this may wait until the classification of the whole group 

 is reconsidered. 



