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flagellum thick, its middle sutures somewhat constricted 

 beneath ; eyes large ; face narrow, facial quadrangle very 

 much longer than broad ; hair of face not dense enough to 

 hide surface, pale, with a silvery lustre and a slight yellowish 

 tint ; clypeus, face, and front strongly and densely punc- 

 tured ; sides of vertex shining, with strong well-separated 

 punctures ; cheeks small, hardly half diameter of eye ; meso- 

 thorax and scutellum shining, with distinct well-separated 

 punctures; scutellum with pale yellowish hair; area of 

 metathorax broadly triangular, smooth and shining, without 

 sculpture ; sides of metathorax with two little projecting 

 points, as in Binghamiella. Legs with thin pale golden 

 hair; tegulaj clear rufo-fulvous. Wings hyaline but hairy, 

 the apex broadly dusky, including apical part of marginal 

 cell ; stigma and nervures ferruginous ; stigma large ; lower 

 section of b. n. gently arched, falling a little short of t.-m. ; 

 second s.m. much higher than broad, twice as broad below as 

 above, and receiving first r. n. in middle ; third s.m. also 

 higher than broad. Abdomen broad, shining, with sparse 

 inconspicuous pale yellowish hair ; third segment with 

 evident punctures. 



Bab. Cairns, Queensland, "Kur. 3. 02 " (G.& R. Turner) . 

 British Museum. 



A very distinct species, easily known by its peculiar colour. 

 It is in some ways intermediate between Callomelitta and 

 Binghamiella. The metathorax and comparatively small 

 size suggest Binghamiella, but the venation is different and 

 more like that of Callomelitta. The peculiar coloration 

 recalls Halictus rowlandi and Parasphecodes contaminatus, 

 also found at Cairns. 



Exoneura bicolor ^ Smith. 



Smith based this genus and species on the female only. 

 E. picti/rons, Alfken, may be its male, it is from S. W. Aus- 

 tralia ; and Swan River must apparently be considered the 

 type locality of E. bicolor, as it is the first of the two localities 

 cited. A male in the British Museum from Victoria (G. F., 

 Sept. 1901, Turner Collection) may belong to bicolor or to 

 hamulata — more probably, I think, to the latter, as it has the 

 scape entirely dark, the first abdominal segment black above, 

 and the second very largely black. The eyes are extremely 

 large and prominent, and the face is very narrow, narrower in 

 the middle than the width of an eye; clypeus pale yellow; 

 yellow lateral face-marks narrow, not nearly reaching level 

 of top of clypeus, the black interval between them and clypeus 



