Description.^ and Records oj Bees. 17 



Uah. Gulf of Oman, lat. 21° 58' N., lotl^^ %^'' ai' E., 

 156 fathoms, shell-sand. 



A few valves of a small Leptoiiy not unlike in form to the 

 British Fj. squamosum, Mont. 



EXPLANATION OF Till-: PLATES. 



Plate I. 



Fiff. 1 . Cyclostrema tyedecimlincatum. 



Fig. 2, (Tuhiola) nugatorium. 



Fig. 3. Solariella iridifiilyens. 



Fig. 4. Monilea chiliurches. 



Fig. 5. Fpitoniutn zatrephes. 



Fig. G. schepmani. 



Fig. 7. Crosseia a/licicns. 



Fig. 8. Teinottoma emmeUs. 



Fig. 9. Ethalia diotrepkes. 



Fig. 10. Fluxina stenomphala. 



Fig. 11. liisson (Apicularia) townsondi. 



Fig. \'2. (Scrobs) ekpelhce. 



Fig. 13, ( ) ictriella. 



Fig. 14. Obtortio elongelUt. 



Fig. 15. Ceriihium tngonostomum. 



Plate IL 



Fig. 16. Cerilhiapsis eutreta. 



Fig. 17. henjameiisis. 



Fig. 18. [Seila) ochrolivens. 



Fig. 19. Culumhella (SeinineUa) salularis. 

 Fig. 20. Mitra (Pusia) geoffreyayia. 

 Fig. 21. Terebra reviancdva. 

 Fig. 22. Mangilia ichthys. 



Fig. 23. quenia. 



Fig. 24. tetartemoris. 



Fig. 25. rieurotomella rhytisme'is. 

 Fig. 2G. Donovanin tojniini. 

 Fig. 27. Tunis invictn. 

 Fig. 28. lietusa turrigera. 

 Fig. 29. Lepton orientals. 



II. — Descnptioyxs and Records of Bees. — XXX. 

 By T. D. A. COCKERELL, University of Colorado. 



The present part is wholly devoted to Australian Prosopl- 

 didae. After studying a long sories of species of Meroglos.fa 

 and Palo'orhiza, it becomes evident that the latter is at best 

 a subgenus. An examination of the mouths brino-s out the 

 remarkable fact that the males have pointed (dagger-like) 

 Ann. & Mag. X. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. vi. 2 



