Records of Bees. 139 



approaching clypeal mark, which occu- 

 pies most of clypeus, but is deeply 

 constricted on each side ; a triangular 

 supraclypeal mark ; all these markings 

 deep chrome-yellow, as also a patch 



on pleura behind tubercles impressifrons, Sin. 



Medium-sized species, superficially like 

 rotundiceps; face-marks white, though 

 those of thorax are bright chrome- 

 yellow ; lateral marks reduced to a 

 dot on each side near level of middle 

 of clypeus, and a large round spot 

 (caudate below) on each side of an- 

 tennae ; clypeal patch large. (One 

 bind leg of type carries the pollen-body 

 of an Asclepiadaceous plant.) sulcifrons, Sm, 



48. Lateral face-marks linear; clypeus with 



a small elongate mark ; face narrow ; 

 tubercles orange-yellow, but no yel- 

 low spot behind them nubilosa, Sm. 



Lateral face-marks consisting of large 

 round orange-yellow spots, the lower 

 part of the usual marks being absent ; 

 clypeus black ; tubercles orange-yel- 

 low, but no yellow spot behind them ; 

 abdomen faintly metallic rotundiceps, Sm., £ . 



(For rotundiceps tf, see Cockerell, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxiii, 

 p. 235. ) 



Lateral face-marks ordinary 49. 



49. Males 50. 



Females ; clypeus black 53. 



60. Clypeus and lateral marks ivory colour ; 



face very narrow. (Kuranda, Dodd.) aureomaculata, Ckll. 

 Clypeus yellow 51. 



51. Supraclypeal mark present ; mesothorax 



minutely and densely punctured ; an- 

 terior tibifle and tarsi red ; a constric- 

 tion between first and second dorsal 

 abdominal segments elongatn, Sm. 



(Another specimen is erroneously labelled similis J .) 



No supraclypeal mark 52. 



52. Lateral face-marks angular above, the 



point away from orbital margin ; yel- 

 low on scutellum and postscutellum 

 reduced; abdomen slightly purplish. 

 (Tasmania.) . honesta, Sm. 



Lateral face-marks ending above in an 

 acute angle on orbital margin, above 

 level of antenna? ; yellow of scutellum 

 and postscutellum not reduced ; abdo- 

 men quite distinctly bluish, with hind 

 margins of segments reddish purple. 

 (New South Wales.) simillima, Sm., $ . 



Lateral face-marks rounded above, ending 

 in an angle on orbital margin, but 

 much more obtusely than in simillima. metallica, Sm. 



