liecortls of Beeft. 359 



Kuri/<//ossi</tii >•< rt(iiuju/ii/<ij s|). II. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



Head and thora.K black, (|iiit<! Iiairy ; abdomen very brii^lit 

 chestnut-red, with a hirge round Ijlaek spot on cacli .side of 

 S( conil SI jTiiient ; femora black, with the knees fenni^rinoiiH ; 

 tibiiu and tarsi ferruL,Mnous, more or less suiViised witli dusky; 

 teyulas ferruginous. Win;^s palo redtlisli, stij^ma and nervures 

 ferruginous. Head broad; mandibles dark, strongly groove<l ; 

 clypeus sliinin;j^, with stron;; sparse punctures; supraclypcal 

 area sliiniujL;", punctured only at sides; siiles of faco shining, 

 l>ut front and vertex dull and granular ; no definable facial 

 fovea' ; hair of cheeks and underside of thorax greyish white ; 

 hair of face partly fuscous and partly pale, of vertex behind 

 ocelli long and dark fuscous ; tiagtdlum dull red beneath ; 

 inesothorax and scutellum dull, minutely tessellate, with 

 scattered very weak punctures; hair of thorax above greyish, 

 mixed with dark fuscous; metathorax essentially as in Eury- 

 olossa, the basal area large, triangular, dull and rough basally, 

 more shining beyond ; .scopa of hind femora white, but tho 

 large plumose scopa of hind tibiae grey ; hind basitarsus 

 longer than the other joints together. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining, the hair at apex strongly stained with fu-scous. 



(J. — Much more slei.der; the abdomen claviforn), slender 

 ba.sally ; the abdomen is variably suffused with black and 

 has a faint jiurple lustre, the second segment is the least 

 darkened ; stigma and nervures rufo-fuscous ; face broad ; 

 clypeus covered with white hair ; flagellura long, very obscure 

 reddish beneath ; ocelli prominent. 



Ilab. Victoria (C. F., Feb. 1901; Turner Collection); 

 3 ? , 2 cJ . A female is tbe type. 



K. rectanguUita is the type of the genus. Another sjiccies 

 i.s Kurt/glossidia ichneumonoides {Exiryglossa ichneunionoides, 



Ckll., iyuG). 



Megachile kurandensis, sp. n. 



(J. — Length about 8^ mm. 



A short broad sjjecies, the anterior tarsi simple but robust, 

 with Knig pale fulvous hair beliind. JMack ; ventral pubes- 

 cence of head and thorax white, a very large thick beard on 

 lo>ver side of cheeks ; faco densely covered with golden- 

 fulvous hair ; vertex with long black hair; head ordinary; 

 mandibles and antenna; black ; hair of thorax above and 

 pleura maiidy black (long on scutellum), but fulvous on 

 tubercles, at corners of mcsothorax, in scutcllo-mesothoracic 



