Records of Bees. 38.') 



face-marks arc broader at base, regularly tapering to a sharp 

 point. Mr. Turner took both /-*. ulboniteas and P. chro- 

 viatica at tlowcrs of Xanlhorrhna. 



AUodape similliina, Smith. 



Smith described the female. Two males come from 

 Mackay, Queeuslaud, January 1899 and IdOO {Turner, 716). 

 They are 7 to 7^ mm. long, like the female, but with the 

 eyes very large, face narrowed below ; clypeus ivory-white, 

 constricted lu middle ; almost liuear lateral face- marks ; a 

 large white spot on labrumj middle and hind basitarsi white. 



^Ir. Turner also took A. uniculor, Smith, at Mackay 

 (March 19UU). 



Pachyprosopis obesa, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 7 mm. 



Head and thorax very robust ; abdomen large and 

 broad, though rather short; head and thorax black, without 

 light markmgs ; mandibles dark reddish; scape clear 

 reddish orange; Hagellum short and thick, ferruginous, 

 suHusedly dusky above; clypeus and supraclypeal area 

 shining, with scattered punctures ; front also shining, but 

 with much liner and closer punctures ; facial foveas very 

 distinct, linear, ending below at about level of middle of 

 scape, and above curving over to the lateral ocelli ; ocelli 

 rather small ; mesothorax and scutellum nude, shining, with 

 scattered small punctures, which are closer on hind part of 

 mesothorax and on scutellum ; tubercles with a fringe of 

 dull white hair ; pleura not hairy ; area of metathorax 

 triangular, without evident sculpture; all the tibiie and tarsi 

 bright ferruginous, as also anterior femora at apex, middle 

 femora except beneath, and hind femora entirely ; tegula; 

 piceous. Wings dusky hyaline ; stigma and nervui'cs 

 vellowisli brown ; b. n. strongly arched, falling far short of 

 t.-m. ; first r. n. meeting first t.-c. ; second s.m. more or less 

 wedge-shaped, higher than long, produced to a point above. 

 Abdomen dull dark ferruginous, with variable transverse 

 dusky clouds on the segments. 



Hab. Syduey, New South Wales, Nov. 29, 1910 {W. W. 

 Froyyatt, 127) ; 2 ? . 



A very distinct species, known from all others by its thick 

 and wholly black head and thorax, combined with an orange 

 scape and a red abdomen. 



