THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 26. FEBRUARY 1010. 



XVII. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — XXV. 

 By T. D. A. (JOCKERELL, University o£ Colorado. 



Table of the Australian Species o/Prosopis. 



The following table was prepared at the British Museum, 

 with the types of nearly all the species before me. The 

 genus is here interpreted in the old broad sense ; some of the 

 species belong to Palceorhiza, Perkins, which, though in 

 most respects Prosopiform, is distinct by the elongated and 

 pointed tongue. The type of this genus is Palceorhiza per- 

 viridis (Prosopis per viridis , Ck.ll.) . I have included in the 

 table also one or two species of the Austro-Malay region. 



The only species not before me at the time of preparing 

 the table were P. bidentala, i^in., P. fulvicornis, Sm., P. lub- 

 bocki, Ckll., P. lioyonia, Vachal, P. qaudrata, Sm., and 

 P. vicina, JSichel. 



Abdomen red or red and black, not me- 

 tallic (obscurely reddish also in P. pn- 

 mulipicta, Ckll., P. rujiceps, Sm., and 

 P. rotundiceps, Sm.) 1. 



Abdomen neither wholly nor in part red 

 (obscurely reddish in the three species 

 just cited ; head red in rujiceps) .... 10. 

 1. Scutellum and postseutellum partly or 



•wholly yellow or cream-colour 2. 



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