30 Descriptions and Jxecords of Bees, 



clypeus lias dense punctiferous grooves, and the mesothorax 

 is strongly and very densely punctured, though not so 

 coarsely as in P. amata. The light markings are lemon- 

 yellow, not deep orange as in P. amata. Head and thorax 

 black, abdomen dark shining purple; no light markings on 

 head except the long subtriangular lateral marks, which are 

 variable in size ; scape black ; flagellum ferruginous beneath ; 

 tongue normal for Prosopis ; mandibles broad and thick, 

 tridentate ; the yellow marks on thorax consist of upper 

 border of prothorax (interrupted in middle), tubercles, a 

 broad but rather short transverse stripe on hinder part of 

 scutellum, and a subquadrate patch on postscutellum ; area 

 of metatliorax coarsely ridged ; tegulae piceous. Wings 

 hyaline, stigma and nervures reddish brown; b. n. arched, 

 falling short of t.-m. ; first r. n. entering apical corner of 

 first s.ni. ; legs black, the tarsi conspicuously pale-haired ; 

 abdomen delicately punctured. 



IJab. Cooktown (type locality), Oct. 1904 {Turner); 

 Mackay, May 1900 {turner). British Museum. 



Prosopis alcyonea, Erichs., ^ . 

 Cumberland, New South Wales {Turner). Brit. Museum. 



Prosopis dtsjunctttf Ckll. 



This is not a Meroglossa; the tongue is Prosopiform in 

 both sexes. The female, hitherto undescribed, resembles the 

 male, but the clypeus is without light colour, and the legs are 

 witiiout yellow markings. Females are Turner's 1051, from 

 Mackay ; three, Nov. 1899, are from flowers of Eugenia. 

 Both sexes are from flowers of Xayitliorrhoea, May 1899. 

 In my table ? disjuncta runs to P. albonitens^ from wliich it 

 is easily separated by its larger size. 



Prosopis omiculiformis, Ckll. 



This species was described from the female. The male 

 (Mackay, April and May 1900, one at flowers of Xanthor- 

 rJicea ; Turner, 620), runs in my table to P. j^^i^^ulipicta, 

 diftering thus : — 



Larger ; face pale yellow, lateral marks ending in a 

 point about halfway between level of antennae 

 and top of eye amicuU/wmis, 



Smaller ; face deeper yellow, lateral marks not going 



nearly so far up (Mackay, May 1900; Turner, 714;, primulipicta. 



The face of male annculiformis is shining, and the scape 



