Records of Bees. 7 



Sept. ]4-0ct. 31, 1913 (R. E. Turner). 4 S, British 

 Museum. 



A very distinct species, known from all otliers by the 

 ornamentation of the abdomen. It is related in a general 

 way to P. biniaculatus and cnjthrurus. 



Meyachile abdominalis, Smith. 

 Brisbane, Sept. 12, 1913 {Hacker; Queensl. A[us. 94), 



Euryyiossina microxantha, sp, n* 



? . — Length about 3^ mm. 



Light sulj)hur-yellow ; eyes olive-green; a black line on 

 each side extending from near outer side of lateral ocelli 

 downward near orbital margin to about level of front ; au- 

 tcnnaj placed very low down; niesothorax obscurely suffused 

 with pale reddish ; area of metathorax triangular, daik rcd- 

 brown, with a central triangular yellow mark. Wings 

 clear, stigma and nervures wholly pallid, light yellowisJi ; 

 b, n. falling far short of t.-m. ; first r. n. joining first s.m. 

 some distance from apex ; lower side of first s.m. straight. 

 Abdomen broad, with five broad reddish-brown bands, which 

 end abruptly before the lateral margins ; venter entirely 

 yellow. 



Hub. ]\rackay, Queensland, at flowers of Leplospermum, 

 Oetol)er 1898 (Turner). British Museum. 



Related to E. sulpkurella, Ckll., but easily known by the 

 dark abdominal bands. It looks just like a small and pallid 

 Euryglossa furcijera^ Ckll., but that differs generically in the 

 venation, the first r. n. entering the second s.m., while the 

 second s.m. is much higher in proportion to its length. 



Euryglossa brachycera, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 5 mm. 



Light sulphur-yellow, slightly and variably suffused with 

 pale reddish, especially on the niesothorax ; mandibles 

 reddened apically ; a black line en each side passes outward 

 from the lateral ocelli and, abruptly bending, descends 

 parallel with the orbit to about level of middle of front; 

 antennae normni in position, but extremely short, the thick 

 and very short flagellum dusky above and light I'erriiginous 

 beneath ; transverse sutures of thorax above all narrowly 

 black ; area of mesothorax cup-shaped in outline, black, 

 with a large transverse yeliow mark. ^Vings clear, nervures 

 arid stigma entirely pallid, slightly yellowish : lower side of 



