56 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



from wliicli it is known by the swollen scape and other 

 characters. The niesothorax is mucii more finely punctured 

 than in G. hackeri, Ckll. 



Prosopis distractus:, sp. n. 



c? . — Length 6 mm. or slightly over. 



Rather robust ; black, with yellow markings (all turned 

 red by cyanide in type) ; head l3road for a Prosopis, the eyes 

 little converging below ; mandibles yellow, rather long, con- 

 spicuously bidentate at end ; labrum yellow ; a short indis- 

 tinct yellow line on posterior orbital margin ; face all yellow- 

 to level of antennae, and lateral face-marks extending broadly 

 upwards, then narrowing to a point on orbital margin above 

 middle of front ; clypeus broad, not especially high as in 

 species of Giiathoprosopis, finely punctured; supraclypeal 

 area large and long, dej^ressed and shining, at its upper mar- 

 gin slightly elevated and bigibbous ; upper extension of 

 lateral face-marks shining and swollen ; scape light in front, 

 not swollen ; flagellum light ferruginous beneatii ; nieso- 

 thorax and scutellum dullish, microscopically tessellate and 

 excessively minutely punctured ; greater part of tubercles 

 and slender interrupted line on upper border of prothorax 

 yellow ; no other yellow on thorax ; thorax with an obtuse 

 tubercle on each side beneath, in front of middle legs. Legs 

 black, with the following parts yellow : — anterior coxaj and 

 their trochanters beneath, small marks on hind coxae, ante- 

 rior femora beneath and at apex, middle and hind femora at 

 apex, anterior tibiae except a stripe behind, longitudinal band 

 and ends of middle tibia?, basal third of hind tibiai, anterior 

 tarsi, and basal part of middle and hind basitarsi ; tegulje 

 ferruginous, with a yellow spot. Wings du^ky hyaline, 

 nervures and stigma dark sepia ; first r. n. entering base of 

 second s.m. Abdomen thick, moderately shining; third 

 ventral segment with a strong transverse curved ridge, con- 

 vex caudad, the ends not elevated into distinct tubercles. 



Bah. Yallingup, Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 1913 (li. E. Turner). 

 Brit. Museum. 



E-uns in my table nearest to P. hituhercidata , which is a 

 Onathoprosopis. It is a singular species, with some of the 

 characters of Onathoprosopis, yet certainly to be excluded 

 from that genus. 



Euryglossa nuiilipennis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 9 mm. 

 Robust ; head, thorax, and legs black ; first three abdo- 



