Tiecords of Bees. 147 



abdomen with the first segment smooth and shining, the 

 others dnll. AViiigs clear, nervures and stigma vei*v dark 

 brown ; second s.ni. large, subquadratc, receiving both re- 

 cnrrent nervures. The mcsotliorax is microscopically tes- 

 sellatc, with excessively minute punctures; the abdomen, 

 beyond the tirst segment, has a microscopical transverse 

 striation. 



Hub. Como, New South Wales, two taken Nov. 1, 1902 

 (FrO'/(/ait, 35). 



Looks at tirst sight like P. amicula, but easily separated 

 by the reduced face-markings and entirely dark legs ; amicula 

 also has a delicately punctured abdomen, without any abrupt 

 contrast between the tirst and second segments. It also 

 recalls P. nijropersonata, Ckll., but that has a blue abdomen. 



Prosopis ,1-anthaspis, Cockerel!. 



The male, not before described, is very small (hardly 5i mm. 

 long). 



Clypeus, labrura, and cnncate lateral face-marks (strongly 

 notched above) primose-yelloAv; no supraclypeal mark; 

 yellow ornaments of thorax as in the female, except that 

 the yellow- of the tubercles is paler and reduced in amount, 

 while the bright chrome-yellow patches of the scutcllum and 

 postscutelluin are smaller (shorter), and there are no axillar 

 spots ; anterior tibia in front, hind tibiie broadly at base, 

 and all the basitarsi, white or very pale yellowish ; metallic 

 tint of abdomen very obscure. 



Hub. jNIackay, Queensland, March 1900 {Turner, 15 a). 

 Two specimens. 



In my table of Australian Prosopis, this runs to P. metal- 

 lica, Sm,, which has a strongly punctured abdomen; or 

 amomr the non-metallic species to the group of hoaesta, 

 simillima, and metallica, ditferiug by its small size and the 

 face-markings. 



Prosopis scintilla, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 4 mm. 



Looks like P. eugeniella, but face-marks reduced to a 

 slender cream-coloured line along rather more than the 

 middle third of the inner orbital margins ; labrum and 

 mandibles ferruginous; antennae dark brown above, pale 

 testaceous beneath (including scape), the flagellum thick; 

 head round seen from in front ; head and thorax dullish, 

 abdomen convex, shining ; thorax Avith no light markings ; 

 knees, anterior tibise in front, and all the tarsi ferruginous; 



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