476 Mr. T. D. A. Cockevell — Descriptions and 



bidentate, the inner .tooth short (style of P. hova), basal 

 part of: mandibles mainly very pale yellowish ; scape with a 

 yellow stripe in front. Face, front, and vertex with long 

 black hair, but also white at sides of face and (appressed) 

 on each side of labvara : occiput and cheeks with long white 

 hair ; mesothorax shining-, but distinctly punctured ; scu- 

 tellum only feebly bigibbous ; tliorax with black hair, 

 becoming obscurely ochreous along anterior margin of 

 mesothorax, bright ochreous (forming a conspicuous wide 

 band) on raetathorax, and pure white in middle of ventral 

 surface. Legs with mainly black hair ; anterior tibise with 

 a band of appressed golden pubescence in front; teguhe 

 black. Wings dilute fuliginous; venation as in P.micre- 

 Ifphas, but second s.ni. narrower. Abdomen closely punc- 

 tured, basal segment with black hair ; apical margin of 

 second segment, and all of next three except base, covered 

 with appressed bright ferruginous pubescence; sixth seg- 

 ment with hair partly red and partly black ; apical plate 

 emarginate. 



Miarinarivo, Madagascar (Queensl. Museum ; from Le 

 Moult). 



Similar to P. cambouei, Sauss., but that is a very much 

 larger species, with the scutellum different. 



Hyleoides concinnus (Fabricius). 



Launceston, Tasmania, Feb. 15-16, 1916 (F. M. Littler). 



Genus new to Tasmania. The female agrees with main- 

 land specimens ; but the male, compared with one from 

 Sydney, differs by the wholly black prothorax and the more 

 distinct punctures of second abdominal segment. 



Megachile derelicta, Cockerell. 



? .--St. Patrick's R., Tasmania, 6.2.14 [Littler). 

 New to Tasmania. 



Mesotrichia hryorum (Fabricius). 



Daru, Papua (Queensland Mus.). 



The female has the wings suffused with rosy-purplish, 

 whereas Australian examples usually have them much more 

 green. 



Eidcema amahiUs, sp. n. 



(S . — At first sight exactly like -E. bruesi, Ckll., but 

 differing thus : green of mesothorax more brilliant, extend- 

 ing along the sides to the jiosterior end, where it is very 



