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basal half of the segments very minutely punctured; hair of 

 ah(h>meu thin and white, with searccly defined hands, hair 

 aljout apex fuseous ; apieal [)late very hroad. The anterior 

 and uii(hlle knees are reddened. Hind !<pnr with long strong 

 teeth. 



Hub. Mackav, Queensland, at flowers of Eugenia, Nov. 

 1899 (Turner, 3^1). British Museum. 



F. euf/eniariou is a rather peculiar species. In my table 

 of Smith's " Lamprocolli'tes" (Trans. Amcr, Ent. Soc. xxxi. 

 345) it runs to 10, and the cohiur of the antenuie suggests 

 that it may he the female of P. atitennatus (Smith), but the 

 venation is ditierent. It also seems to fall near P. argenti- 

 frons (Smith), known only from the male; I believe it is 

 really very close to argtnlifrons, hut almost certainly not 

 identical, espceialiy as Smith's species comes from Swan 

 lliver. (For additional notes on P. argentifruns see Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc. xxxvi. 2U4.) P. perfasciatus, Ckll., is also 

 apparently allied. 



The stout teeth of the hind spur in P. eugeniarum are very 

 different from the numerous slender spines of P. platy- 

 ce/j/ia/us. The third s.m. of P. eugeniarum is a little broader 

 ahove than the second, and the third t.-c. strongly bulges 

 outward. 



Gastropsis victoria, Cockerell, var. a. 



(J . — Abdomen and anterior part of mesothorax with a 

 greenish lustre ; mesothorax witli much black hair, except 

 on the anterior third, where it abruptly changes to yellowish 

 white; all the hair of second abdominal segment long and 

 white ; segments 3 to 5 with narrow and rather incon- 

 spicuous white marginal hair-bands ; sixth segment with 

 long fuscous hair. 



Hab. Western Australia, 1909 {Froggatt, 47). 



Til is is probably a distinct subspecies, but the original 

 types of G.victorice had been in some liquid, and the descrip- 

 tion of the pubescence Avas defective. More material is 

 needed to show whether theie are separable forms iu 

 \V. Australia, S. Australia, and Victoria. 



Andrena milwaukeensis, Graenicber. 



This fine species, described from Wiscousin, has been 

 taken by Miss Eleth Cattell at Garrison, New York. 



Andrena hirticinda, Provancher. 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts [Eleth Cattell). 



