358 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



about as broad as they are ; face and vertex with long black 

 liair J antennoe wholly dark ; flagellum thick, only moderately 

 long ; abdomen claviform, slender basally ; liiiid tibia clavi- 

 Ibrm, with a broad black band behind; hind basitarsus thick, 

 sausage-shaped. There is a fringe of curled dark bristles at 

 the end of the abdomen, such as may be seen in male 

 Allodape. 



EURYGLOSSIDIA, gen. nov. 



Bees superficially resembling Parasphecodes, but witli the 

 tongue CoUetes-Y\kt in both stxes, and only two submarginal 

 cells. From Euryglossa they are separated by the venation 

 of the long and ample wings; lower section of basal nervure 

 only gently arched, falling only a little short of t.-m. ; sub- 

 marginal cells both very long ; second s.m. receiving first r. n. 

 at a distance from its base equal to about half of first t.-c. ; 

 apical section of second r. n. vertical, joining second s.m. a 

 short distance from end, the angle formed a right angle; 

 second s.m. narroued above, the second t.-c. -forming less than 

 a right angle on outer side with marginal; lower side of 

 first s.m. almost straight ; stigma longer. Hind spur of 

 female witii four long slender dark spines, the other spurs 

 minutely spinulose ; hairs of liind tibial scopa long-branched. 

 Paljji essentially as in Euryglossa, except that the joints 

 of the maxillary })alpi are much longer, and the last joint is 

 much longer than the penultimate. 



Smitii described two Australian bees as Scrapter bicolor 

 and S. carinata. The name bicolor being preoccupied, it was 

 altered by Dalla Torre to austr aliens is. Vachal, in 1897, 

 proposed a generic name Smithia for these bees, but did not 

 give any generic characters, and apparently acted simply 

 Irom a sense of the improbability of the Australian insects 

 belonging to Scrapter. Smithia being preoccupied, W. A. 

 JSchulz in 1906 substituted Melittosmithia. 



There can be little doubt, 1 think, that these are Eury- 

 glossine bees. No type for Smithia or Melittosmithia has 

 been designated ; I therefore name carinata (Smith), the first 

 species cited by Schuiz, as the type. 



This insect seems from the description to be related to 

 Euryglossa froggattiana, Okll., which is by no means a typical 

 Euryglossa. Melittosmithia, thus interpreted, is quite distinct 

 from Euryglossidia, but it may be that the other species, 

 australicnsis, belongs to the latter genus. 



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