46S Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



between the segments ; first ventral segment only slightly 

 turgid; sixth segment bideutate, the teeth rather close 

 together. 



$ . — Length about 7 mm. 



Fifth and sixth abdominal segments red, but not so bright 

 as in the male ; ventral scopa -white ; white hair-spots at 

 corners of mesothorax, but none in scutello-mesotlioracic 

 suture ; head large ; flagellum quite normal for Megachile, 

 obscure red beneath ; clypeus strongly punctured, its lower 

 margin tridentate ; supraclypeal area with large punctures 

 and a smooth area. 



Hab. Yarrawin (Brewarrina), 1914 [Froggatt ; S =type, 

 226 c; ? 230 c). 



Easily known by its small size and partly red abdomen. 

 The female is very like Megachile full oni, CklL, but that has 

 only one red abdominal segment, and the clypeus and supra- 

 clypeal area are quite dift'erent. The genus Thaumutosoma 

 is founded on a secondary sexual character, and the female 

 cannot be distinguished from the group of Australian 

 Heriades-\ike Megachile, which, however, should probably be 

 separated from true Megachile, 



Saropoda bombifonnis, Smith. 



? .— Biuaturi R , Papua, March 1913 [S. H. M. ; Frog- 

 gatt coll. 216 c). Agrees with Australian specimens. 



Anthophora preissi froggatti, subsp. n. 



? . — Length fully 16 mm. 



Covered with mouse-coloured hair. Differs from A. preissi 

 (from Western Australia) as follows : — Antennae black, the 

 flagellum not red beneath ; a transverse pale yellow supra- 

 clypeal band, and the lower corners of the clypeus broadly 

 pale yellow ; median pale stripe on clypeus narrow, not 

 tapering above, but broadened at extreme upper end ; hind 

 margins of abdominal segments narrowly dark reddish ; the 

 creamy- white hair of outer side of hind tibia with a ferru- 

 ginous stain at base. 



Hab. Brewarrina, New South Wales, 1914 [Froggatt, 

 203 c). 



At the same locality Mr. Froggatt took a male A. pulchra, 

 Sm. (201c). 



