Records of Bees. 289 



A striking species, closely related in structure to M. saul- 

 cyi, Guer. (chilensis, Spinola), though very distinct by the 

 ])lack hair and dark wings. In Vachal's table of males in 

 ' Revue d'Entomologie/ 1908-1909, it runs to M. tricincta, 

 Friese, except that the anterior legs have much pale hair 

 behind. It is also easily separated from tricincta by the 

 entirely black-haired abdomen. In Friese^s table of males 

 in 'Flora og Fauna," 1908, it runs nearest to M. argenthia, 

 Friese, which is very similar, but has the flagellum some- 

 what broadened at end, and three teeth on each side of the 

 incision at end of abdomen. 



Callomelitta picta, Smith. 



Melbourne, Victoria, June 26, 1892 [French). Froggatt 

 coll., no. 102. 



Euryglossa heematura^ sp, n. 



? . — Length about 14 mm., anterior wing 85. 



Black, with very scanty pale hair, last two abdominal 

 segments above and below bright ferruginous, with reddish 

 hair. Legs very dark reddish, superficially appearing black, 

 the inner side of tarsi with dense very pale yellowish hair. 

 Head very large, quadrate ; eyes moderately converging above; 

 facial fovese deep narrow channels ; mandibles large, curved ; 

 labrum shining, depressed in middle; clypeus large, smooth 

 and shining, with scattered small punctures; front closely 

 punctured ; vertex with large well-separated punctures ; 

 cheeks large, with punctures of various sizes ; antennae very 

 dark reddish, the flagellum with a row of fulvous spots 

 beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum shining, with strong 

 widely separated punctures ; area of metathorax smooth; 

 tegulae dark reddish. Wings dusky, reddish ; stigma and 

 nervures brown ; first r. n, joining second s.m. at a distance 

 from base nearly equal to length of first t.-c. ; outer margin 

 of basal half of hind tibia strongly dentate ; hind spur 

 finely pectinate. Abdomen dullish, with a hardly noticeable 

 greenish tinge. 



Hah. Walcha, New South Wales, March 20, 1903 {W. TV. 

 Froggatt, 70). 



Resembles E. ierminata, Smith, but is very much larger. 



Euryglossa geminata, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 9 mm. 



Black, with very bright chrome-yellow markings, as 

 follows : clypeus, transversely semilunar supraclypeal mark, 

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