148 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



te{2jnlce testaceous. Wings clear^ nervnres and stigma dark 

 reddish brown ; stigma ordinary, considerably smaller than 

 in P. euffeniella ; recurrent nervures meeting the transverso- 

 cubitals ; vertex and mesotliorax rough and coarsely punc- 

 tured, the latter with scattered pale hair. Abdomen with 

 A'cry sparse excessively minute punctures, and minute 

 transverse lineolation. 



Hab. Mackay, Queensland, at flowers of Eucalyptus, 

 Dec. 1899 {lurner, 1082). British Museum. 



Prosopis ancoruta, sp. n. 



^ . — Length nearly 4| mm. 



Black, with creamy-white markings; head and thorax 

 minutely granular-punctate; eyes converging below, face 

 rather narrow ; labrum and mandibles, clypeus (except a 

 large cuneiform black mark on each side), and lateral face- 

 marks, the latter long and narrrow, filling space between 

 clypeus and eye, abruptly notched by antcnnal sockets, and 

 ending in a line a short distance above level of antennae ; 

 no supraelypeal mark ; scape very short, cream-coloured on 

 outer side; tlagellum long, light ferrugiuous beneath ; pro- 

 thorax with two white lines on upper border and a small 

 spot on tubercles ; no other light colour on thorax ; area 

 of metathorax very large, semicircular, with irregular rugae ; 

 tegulce piceous with a light spot. AVings clear, with dark 

 nervures and stigma; first r. n. entering second s.m., second 

 r. n. joining second t.-c. ; second s.ni. rather long ; anterior 

 tibise in front, and anterior and middle knees, ferruginous 

 or testaceous ; hind tibia narrowly at base, and hind basi- 

 tarsus, white. Abdomen somewhat shining, scarcely punc- 

 tured ; venter normal. 



Hab. Sydney, New South Wales, at flowers of Angophora, 

 Nov. 24, 1910 {Froggatt, 107, in part). 



In my table runs to 35, and runs out on account of the 

 cream-coloured face-markings, which resemble those of 

 P. aureomaculata, although the face is so much shorter thau 

 in ancorata. 



Prosopis ehurmdla, sp. n. 



$ . — Size and appearance of P. ancorata, but diflcring as 

 follows : face broader and shorter, entirely ivory-white 

 beneath the level of the anteuure, with a supraelypeal mark 

 which is about twice as broad as long, the lateral marks 

 ending obliquely above, at an angle of about 45° with orbit, 

 but at extreme apex prolonged along orbital margin in a 

 small finger-like tip ; llagellum much shorter, but scape 



