Records of Dees. 1 U 



with lonf]j projecting bristles ; ventral segiujiits 3 to 5 ciliateJ 

 with white hair. 



$ . — Siinihar to the male, hut the thorax is without red ami 

 the ahdomen is either all black or with obscure reddish bands 

 across the middle of the third and following segments ; the 

 head also is quite different, being red, strongly suffused with 

 black above, without light markings, and normal in form, 

 without facial excavations ; the scape also is ordinary. The 

 tongue is broad and obtuse, P rosopis-XWic, ; that of the single 

 male has not been extracted, but it is doubtless pointed. Tlie 

 liind spurs are simple, black tipped with white; the mandibles 

 are obtu>^ely bidentate. 



Hah. ]\Iackay, Queensland (Twrn^r). British Museum. 



Both sexes from flowers of Encalyptu.^, March 1900 

 (no. 154:) ; ? at flowers of Rosa^ April 1899 ; one ? , May 

 1900. 



Meroglossa sculptissimi^ sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 9 mm. 



kSimilar to M. eucali/pti\ with the same modification of th ^ 

 face, but differing thus : — clypeal prominence broader than 

 long (longer than broad in eucah/pti) ; scape more swollen 

 and with a blackish mark ; lateral face-marks pointed above ; 

 malar space black, but a yellowish- white stripe on lower part 

 of cheeks ; light markings of thorax chrome-yellow, the 

 scutellum all yellow, and the postscutellum yellow except at 

 sides (suture between them black) ; thorax and abdomen 

 black without red ; venation paler ; legs black ; apical 

 bristles of abdomen shorter and finer. 



? . — Like the same sex of M, eucahjpti\ but the thoracic 

 markings differing in colour and form as in the male; first 

 r. n. entering second s.m. (as it does also in the female of 

 eucidypti) ; head black, with the region about the mouth dark 

 reddish ; narrow lateral face-marks, creamy white, extending 

 from about level of antennaj to that of lower end of eye ; 

 apical part of clypeus depressed ; tongue Prosopi.'i-WkQ. 



llah. Mackay, Queensland ( Turner ^ 1049). Male at flowers 

 of Eucalyptus, 1900 ; females at flowers of Cassia (Dec. 

 18i;9) and Rosa (June 1900). British Museum. 



Meroglossa lactij'era, sp. n. 



(J. — Length about 11 mm. 



►Shining black, with creamy white markings on head, thorax, 

 and legs ; closely similar to .1/. penetrata percrassa, but 

 differing thus : — less robust, the abdomen especially narrower; 



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