Records of Dees. 117 



Eurtjglossa halictina, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 ram. 



Only moderately robust, the thorax appearing small in com- 

 parison with the abdomen ; black, the iiead and. thorax with 

 thin pale hair, the hind margins of the first four abdominal 

 segments narrowly dusky-testaceous ; antennas entirely 

 black ; clypeus shining, with sparse rather weak punctures; 

 front and vertex dull ; mesothorax dull, with extremely 

 minute punctures ; scutellura little more shining, with a 

 depressed median line ; tegulae fuscous basally, with broad 

 testaceous margins. Wings suffused with fuliginous, stigma 

 and nervures fuscous. Legs black. Abdomen with little 

 hair, moderately shining, impunctate. 



Bridport, Tasmania, Oct. 26-30, 1913 (F. M. Littler, 

 2560). 



Nearest to E.fasciatella, Okll., but the head is not nearly 

 so broad. It looks like a species of Halictus. The abdomen 

 is longer and narrower than in E. subsericea, Ckll. 



Lithurgus scabrosus (Smith). 



Yule Island, S.E. Papua, 1915. (Queensland Museum.) 

 It is presumably this species which Friese has reported 

 from New Guinea as L. atratus, Smith. 



Diantkidium truncatiforme, C^^ockerell. 

 N. Djole, Gabon. (Queensland Museum.) 



Megachile lachesis, Smith. 



Kaimana, Dutch New Guinea {H. E/gner). From Queens- 

 laud Museum. 



Megachile saigonensis, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 14*5 mm. 



Agrees with Bingham's description of M. amputata, Smith, 

 except as follows : — apical abdominal segments finely punc- 

 tured all over, not smooth at base; no fulvous fasciae on 

 abdomen beyond third segment ; ventral scopa cream- 

 coloured on first two segments and middle of third and 

 fourth, but broadly black at sides of third and fourth, and 

 black ou last two segments; auteuuie entirely black. The 

 wings are yellowish smoky, with a small dark cloud beyond 



