THE ANXALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



" perlitoraspargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divae, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphse Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reeurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchvlia suceo." 



N.Parthenii Giannettani, Eol. 1, 



No. 01. JULY 1915. 



I. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXVIII. 

 By T. D. A. Cockerell, University of Colorado. 



Prosopis palavanica, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 6 mm. 



Robust, black, head and thorax densely punctured, abdo- 

 men shining ; head broad, clypeus high ; large triangular 

 patch on clypeus, confluent with an apical band, lateral face- 

 marks (but no supraclypeal mark), and narrow stripe on 

 outer side of the short scape all yellow ; lateral face-marks 

 filling space between clypeus and eye, abruptly truncate 

 above just below level of antennae, but sending a narrow 

 band beyond, up along the orbital margin to about level of 

 middle of front ; labrum and mandibles black ; flagellum 

 stout, submoniiiform, very obscure brownish beneath ; meso- 

 thorax more coarsely punctured than front; tubercles (but 

 not tegulse) with a yellow spot ; area of metathorax coarsely 

 irregularly wrinkled, the sinuses between the wrinkles 

 shining; tegulse piceous. Wings greyish hyaline, stigma 

 and nervures piceous ; first r. n. meeting first t.-c. ; second 

 s.m. much broader than high (as in P. tagala, Ashm.). Legs 

 black, anterior tibiae broadly yellow in front, anterior tarsi 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xvi. 1 



