Records of Bees. 4.33 



Austroclio.rf/s thoinasi, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length about 7 nun. 



Moderately slender ; head and thorax coarsely and closely 

 punctured, but shining bi-tweeu the punctures, abdomen 

 densely rui^oso-punetiile. Heat! and thorax black, with faint 

 suggestions of redilish spots on scutelluni, and a reddish lint 

 on sides of thorax beneath wings; legs bright ferrujiinous : 

 alxlornen with the tirst three S(^ginents bright ferruginous, 

 tiie others black, all with narrow, apical, pale ochreous-tinled 

 hair-bands ; face densely covered with pale ochreous-tinted 

 liair ; antennaj slender, rather dark ferruginous ; tubercles, 

 upper border of prothorax, and parts of pleura with appressed 

 pubescence, niesothorax with browner hair, not hiding the 

 surface ; tegulaj ferruginous. Wings hyaiiue, slightly 

 reildish ; stigma and uervures pale ferruginous. 



Hah. Argentina (0. Thomas; British Museum). 



A curious isolated genus, resembling Dlo.v^s, but struc- 

 turally very distinct. 



IJul ictus elherldgei, sp. n. 



? . — Length 9*5 ram. 



Black, very robust; pubescence dull white, abundant on 

 cheeks, sides of thorax, and postscutellum ; vertex, disc of 

 mesothorax, and posterior border of scutelluni with black 

 hair; head extremely broad; clypeus shining, with rather 

 widely separated iaige punctures, and a deep median sulcus 

 which extends upward over supraclypeal area; mandibles 

 black, reddish at extreme tip ; antennae black, scape very 

 long, flagellum short; front dull and granular; mesothorax 

 shining but quite densely punctured, the punctures large and 

 very minute ; scutellum distinctly bigibbous, with minute 

 punctures and scattered larger ones; metathorax sharply 

 truncate, tlie basal area poorly defined, with dense, wrinkled, 

 labyrinthiform rugaj all over; mesopleuraj finely striate; 

 spurs pallid; tegula3 piceous. Wings dusky; stigma rather 

 small, dull reddish, nervures fuscous ; second s.m. quadrate, 

 very broad ; first r. n. meeting second t.-c. ; outer r, n. and 

 t,-c. very slender; third s.m. short. Abdomen shining, 

 finely and evenly punctured, including broad apical depressed 

 part of segments ; no hair-bands or patches, but a (ine pale 

 pruinosity due to thin hair ; hair surrounding caudal rima 

 dark fuscous; venter with only short stifi' hair, but collecting 

 pollen toward base. 



