Records of Bees. 471 



Readily known from the other members of the rubricuta 

 group by the dark legs and scutellum, &c. 



Euprosopis elegans sydneyana (Ckll.). 

 3 J , Yarruwin (Brewarriua), 1914 {Froggatt, 232 c). 



Prosopis sublateralis, sp. u. 



(^ . — Length about 4^ mm. 



Head black, with the mandibles, labrum, clypeus, supra- 

 clypeal mark, and large patch of similar form just above and 

 connected with it, and lateral face-marks (filling space be- 

 tween eyes and clypeus and supraclypcal area, and going 

 upwards as narrowing bands along inner orbits nearly to 

 level of lower edge of middle ocellus) all cream-colour ; face 

 narrow ; front very finely and closely punctured ; antennae 

 light ferruginous, the short scape cream-coloured in front, 

 the flagellum a little dusky above, joints quite normal ; 

 mesothorax, scutellum, axillse, sides of protlioi-ax, meso- 

 pleura, and an obscure patch at sides of metathorax all 

 terra-cotta red ; tubercles and two marks on upper border of 

 prothorax creamy-white ; other parts of thorax black ; 

 mesothorax dull, minutely punctured; area of metathorax 

 semicircular, somewhat shining, irregulaily wrinkled, bounded 

 by a beaded sulcus ; tegulte ferruginous, with a white spot. 

 AVings clear, nervurcs and stigma dark brown. Legs black, 

 with the anterior and middle knees, the anterior tibicC, the 

 middle tibise at apex, hind tibiae broadly at base and slightly 

 at apex, and all the basitarsi creamy white ; middle tibiae 

 light ferruginous in front ; small joints of anterior and 

 middle tarsi pallid, but of hind tarsi fuscous. Abdomen 

 with the first two segments and the base of the third terra- 

 cotta red, the res^t black. 



Hub. Yarrawin (Brewarriua), 1914 {Froygatt, 229 c). 



The quite difl'erent area of metathorax indicates that this 

 cannot be the male of P. cenibera, Ckll. It is evidently very 

 close to P. lateralis, Smith, but, considering the entirely 

 difJerent locality and the various dififerences of size, markings, 

 &C.J I feel confident that the two are not sexes of one species. 



Prosopis coronatula, sp. u. 



^ . — Length about 4 mm. 



Head and thorax black ; face below antennae entirely 

 chalk-white, the lateral marks also extending upwards along 



