30 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



clypeus has dense punctiferous grooves, and the mesothorax 

 is strongly and very densely punctured, though not so 

 coarsely as in P. amata. The light markings are lemon- 

 yellow, not deep orange as in P. amata. Head and thorax 

 black, abdomen dark shining purple ; no light markings on 

 head except the long subtriangular lateral marks, which are 

 variable in size ; scape black ; flagellum ferruginous beneath ; 

 tongue normal for Prosojns ; mandibles broad and thick, 

 tridentate ; the yellow marks on thorax consist of upper 

 border of prothorax (interrupted in middle), tubercles, a 

 broad but rather short transverse stripe on hinder part of 

 scutellum, and a subquadrate patch on postscutellum ; area 

 of metathorax coarsely ridged ; tegulas piceous. Wings 

 hyaline, stigma and nervures reddish brown; b. n. arched, 

 falling short of t.-m. ; first r. n. entering apical corner of 

 first s.m. ; legs black, the tarsi conspicuously pale-haired ; 

 abdomen delicately punctured. 



Ilab. Cooktown (type locality), Oct. 1904 (Turner); 

 Mackay, May 1900 (turner). British Museum. 



Prosopis alcyonea, Erichs., <J . 

 Cumberland, New South Wales (Turner). Brit. Museum. 



Prosopis di$juncta } Ckll. 



This is not a Mei'oglossa ; the tongue is Prosopiform in 

 both sexes. The female, hitherto undescribed, resembles the 

 male, but the clypeus is without light colour, and the legs are 

 without yellow markings. Females are Turner's 1051, from 

 Mackay ; three, Nov. 1899, are from flowers of Eugenia. 

 Both sexes are from flowers of Xanthorrhoea, May 1899. 

 In my table ? disjuncta runs to P. albonitens, from which it 

 is easily separated by its larger size. 



P?°osopis amiculiformis, Ckll. 



This species was described from the female. The male 

 (Mackay, April and May 1900, one at flowers of Xanthor- 

 rhoea ; Turner, 620), runs in my table to P. primidipicta, 

 differing ihus : — 



Larger ; face pale yellow, lateral marks ending in a 

 point about halfway between level of antennae 

 and top of eye amiculiformis. 



Smaller ; face deeper yellow, lateral marks not going 



nearly so far up (Mackay, May 1900; Turner, 714;. primulipicta. 



The face of male amiculiformis is shining, and the scape 



