12 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



middle, with large elongate punctures ; flagellum ferruginous 

 beneath ; mesothorax shining, with large strong punctures ; 

 hair of head and thorax greyish white, a little black or dark 

 fuscous about ocelli and on disc of mesothorax, and much 

 on scutcllura ; legs robust ; tegulae rufo-piceous. AVings 

 hyaline, with a dark fuscous mark at the lower side of the 

 small stigma, a large triangular fuscous patch in apical field, 

 and both on anterior and posterior M'ings fuscous suffusion 

 along the veins approaching the margin; second s.m. very 

 broad. Abdomen shining, with narrow white hair-bands ; 

 first two segments strongly and coarsely punctured, third 

 less strongly, the others scarcely punctured ; apical region 

 with dark fuscous hair, and long coarse dark hair at sides 

 except basally. 



I have no female punctipennis to compare, but the spotted 

 wings are so remarkable that it is probably safe to assume 

 the identity. 



Anthophora cingulata (Fabr.) (gilbert i. Civil.). 



Blackwall Range, April 25, 1911 {Wild; Queensl. Mus. 



126). 



Anthophora rhodoscymna, Cockerell. 



5 . — Like the male, but much larger and more robust ; 

 length 16|mm.; width of abdomen a little over 7 mm.; 

 labrum and greater part of mandibles yellow; cly[.eus with 

 a reversed yellow T; no supraclypeal or lateral face-marks ; 

 tegument of abdomen above entirely bright ferruginous; 

 wings stronglv brownish. 



Brisbane, Jan. 20, 1914 [Hacker ; Queensl. :\Ius. 125). 



Anthophora luzonica, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 16 mm., width of abdomen Q\. 



Robust, black ; head and thorax with mouse-coloured 

 hair, being yellowish grey, strongly mixed with black above 

 and on upper part of pleura, thin and black on clypeus, 

 mainly black on front and face, but a band of prevailingly 

 light hair across lower part of front ; mandibles with nearly 

 all of basal half cream-colour, the very large labrum the 

 same, but stained with brownish, with the apical and basal 

 margins narrowly, and spots at basal corners, piceous ; 

 clypeus densely punctured, with a narrow raised median line 

 (failing above) and submarginal apical band, expanding at 

 each lateral comer to a large patch, pale yellow ; a pale 



