Becords of Bees. 769 



Chelyyiia calliphorina^ sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8^ mm. 



Deep rich iudigo-blue, with slight green tints on the 

 abdomeu; hair of face mainly dull white, but mauy black 

 hairs intermixed ; flagellum obscurely brownish beneath ; 

 hair of vertex and thorax above more black than pale, of 

 pleura black, mixed with pale above, of sides of metathorax 

 black, with a white tuft above ; head and thorax; very 

 coarsely punctured, the punctures well separated on disc of 

 mesothorax ; tegulae blue, punctured. Wings very dusky ; 

 second s.m. very long, its basal corner much more produced 

 than in C. pavonina. Legs dark blue, with dark hair ; 

 abdomen strongly but not densely punctured, its pubescence 

 black ; no abdominal bauds or spots ; ventral segments with 

 a line chocolate-coloured tomentum. 



Hah. Mountains near Claremont, California (5aA:er) . 



Related to C. pavonina., Ckll., and G. cusackcs, Ckll., 

 especially the latter, but easily known by the pale hair of 

 the face. Some time ago Professor Perez sent me a photo- 

 graph of a Californian bee in his collection, which appears 

 to be a Chelynia, and is probably C. calliphorina. 



Stelis carnifex, sp. n, 



? . — Length about 8| mm. 



Deep rich purple, the vertex, mesothorax (except hind 

 edge), and scutellum black or (Nevada specimen) dark blue; 

 punctures strong, well separated on mesothorax ; head 

 oblong ; scape purplish or bluish, flagellum obscure brownish 

 beneath ; tegulae purple in front, and with a more or less 

 pallid discal spot. Wings dusky (brownish), nervures dark ; 

 pubescence black. Legs dark purple. Abdomen with the 

 first three segments strongly but not densely punctured, the 

 others with large very dense more or less elongate punctures ; 

 ventral segments fringed with dark fuscous or black hair. 



Hab. Type from mountains near Claremont, California 

 (Baker). Also one from Ormsby County, Nevada {Baker). 



Intermediate in size between S. montana, Cr., and S. sene- 

 ciophila, Ckll., in colour different from either. The face is 

 narrower than in the Rocky Mountain species. 



Prosopis xanthaspis, var. bicuneata (Cockerell). 



A female of P. xanthaspis, Ckll., from Mackay, Queens- 

 land, March 1900 [Turner), has a yellow patch on each side 

 of the clypeus, thus approaching the condition of P. bi- 

 cuneata. On reviewing the matter, I now believe that 

 bicuneata is a variety of P. xanthaspis. A specimen of var. 



