Records of Bees. 359 



Euryglossidia rectangulata, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



Head and thorax black, quite hairy ; abdomen very bright 

 chestnut-red, with a large round black spot on each side of 

 second segment ; femora black, with the knees ferruginous; 

 tibia? and tarsi ferruginous, more or less suffused with dusky; 

 tegulse ferruginous. Wings pale reddish, stigma and nervures 

 ferruginous. Head broad; mandibles dark, strongly grooved ; 

 clypeus shining, with strong sparse punctures; supraclypeal 

 area shining, punctured only at sides ; sides of face shining, 

 but front and vertex dull and granular ; no definable facial 

 fovea?; hair of cheeks and underside of thorax greyish white; 

 hair of face partly fuscous and partly pale, of vertex behind 

 ocelli long and dark fuscous ; flagellum dull red beneath ; 

 mesothorax and scutellum dull, minutely tessellate, with 

 scattered very weak punctures; hair of thorax above greyish, 

 mixed with dark fuscous; metathorax essentially as in Eury~ 

 c/lossa, the basal area large, triangular, dull and rough basal ly, 

 more shining beyond ; scopa of hind femora white, but the 

 large plumose scopa of hind tibiae grey ; hind basitarsus 

 longer than the other joints together. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining, the hair at apex strongly stained with fuscous. 



cJ. — Much more slender; the abdomen claviform, slender 

 basally ; the abdomen is variably suffused with black and 

 has a faint purple lustre, the second segment is the least 

 darkened; stigma and nervures rufo-fuscous ; face broad; 

 clypeus covered with white hair ; flagellum long, very obscure 

 reddish beneath ; ocelli prominent. 



Hob. Victoria (C. F., Feb. 1901; Turner Collection); 

 3 ? , 2 cJ . A female is the type. 



E. rectangulata is the type of the genus. Another species 

 is Euryglossidia ichneumonoides (Eurgglossa ichneumonoides, 

 Ckll., 1906). 



Megachile kurandensis, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 8-^ mm. 



A short broad species, the anterior tarsi simple but robust, 

 with long pale fulvous hair behind. Black ; ventral pubes- 

 cence of head and thorax white, a very large thick beard on 

 lower side of cheeks ; face densely covered with golden- 

 fulvous hair ; vertex with long black hair; head ordinary; 

 mandibles and antennas black ; hair of thorax above and 

 pleura mainly black (long on scutellum), but fulvous on 

 tubercles, at corners of mesothorax, in scutello-mesothoracic 



