Records of Bees. 53 



Prosoj'is accipitris, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length 5 mm. 



Black, not very robust, having the form and appearance of 

 the common European species ; mandibles cream-colour, the 

 broad bidentate end slightly reddish ; labrum, clypeus, 

 broadly triangular supraclypeal mark, and lateral face-marks 

 (narrow, leaving clypeal margin about middle, extending 

 upwards, gradually narrowing to a point a considerable 

 distance above level of antennae) ))ale primrose-yellow ; face 

 narrowed below ; clypeus very high, microscopically tessel- 

 late, with sparse very weak punctures; scaj)e yellow in 

 front, flagellum light ferruginous beneath ; third and fourth 

 antennal joints very short, about twice as broad as long ; 

 middle of front very densely microscopically punctured, with 

 a honeycomb-like effect, the basins of the cells ridged or 

 wiinkled; cheeks beneath tufted with white hair; meso- 

 thorax microscopically tessellate and with very minute weak 

 punctures, not visible under a lens, which shows only a dull 

 surface ; tegulse piceous, microscopically tessellate ; tubercles 

 and linear marks on upper edge of prothorax light yellow. 

 Wings hyaline, nervures and stigma sepia ; first r. n. entering 

 second s.m. or meeting first t,-c. Anterior tibiae and tarsi 

 light rufo-fulvous, the tibiae with a slight black mark be- 

 hind; middle tibiffi with a pale yellowish stripe, their tarsi 

 cream-colour, brownish apically ; hind tibia? with the basal 

 third yellow, the rest black; their basitarsi yellowish white, 

 pale reddish apically, but the other tarsal joints dark. Abdo- 

 men dullish, very finely sculptured, with very little hair. 



? . — Mandibles dark, the apex rufous ; labrum dark ; 

 clypeus black, with a very broad, longitudinal, pale yellow 

 band ; lateral face-marks consisting of narrow bands along 

 orbital margins ; no supraclypeal mark ; scape dark. 



IJab. Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania, Feb. 12-.March 3, 1913 

 {R. E. Turner), 3 S (o»e being the type), 3 ? . Brit. 

 Museum. 



Prosopis perhumilisj sp. n. 



S . — Length about 4 mm. 



Like P. accipitris, but considerably smaller ; face broader 

 above ; lateral face-marks broad below, filling space between 

 clypeus and eye ; supraclypeal mark low and broad, its upper 

 side flattened; scape with only a narrow light stripe. Wings 

 dusky. Hind basitarsi black, with a little more than the 

 basal third yellow. The sculpture of the fiont is as in 

 P. accipitris. 



