404 On the Apida? in the British Museion. 



pale hairs curving so as to meet inecHally. Sixth segment 

 exposed, clothed with short hairs, slightly emargiiiate at the 

 apex, and with a great impression or fovea on each side (like 

 some Goiletes) ; seventh segment giving off a single narrow 

 process or wing on each side before the apex, the processes 

 beautifully fringed with special curved hairs on the ventral 

 side ; eighth segment with an elongate median apical process. 

 Genital armature with the apical portion of the stipites pilose 

 and marked off (or constricted) from the basal portion, but 

 probably not forming a true lacinia ; sagittse extending 

 behind these, greatly compressed on their apical half, so that 

 in lateral view this portion forms nearly a semicircle with a 

 small apical production or beiik. 



Eupalceorhiza papuana, sp. n. 



cJ. Nigra; mandibulis, genis, pleuris, sterno, sciitello apice, post- 

 scutello, tegulis, propodeo, segmento mediano, terg. et stern. 1 et 

 2 sterniteque 3 aurantiaeis ; clypeo plerumque, linea intra- 

 orbitali utriuque, pronoti niargine linea intcrrupta, pallide hiteis ; 

 alls subbj-aiiuis, apice fuscis. 



Long. 13 mm. 



(J. Black; mandibles, checks, pleura, sternum, scutellum 

 apically, postscutellura, tegula?, propodeum, median segment, 

 tergites and sternites 1 and 2, and sternite 3 orangey-red ; 

 clypeus for the most part, a line extending along the inner 

 orbits on each side, and an interru])ted lino on the margin of 

 the pronotum ])ale yellowish. 



The front, clypeus, vertex, propodeum partly, and abdomen 

 shining, the abdomen with small scattered punctures ; thorax 

 dull, opaque, with even and distinct punctures, coarsest on 

 mesonotuni. ]\landibles as in Paheorhiza, toothed. CUypeus 

 with two shallow longitudinal furrows; a distinct furrow 

 running i'rotn base of insertion of antennaj to ocelli. Pubes- 

 cence, where present, the same colour as ciiitin on which it is 

 situated, that on head, thorax, and legs short and sparse ; 

 segments 1 and 2 of abdomen destitute of jmbescence, the 

 following segments with a considerable covering of long black 

 hairs, chiefly on the aj)ical margin of the segnnjiits. Wings 

 golden hyaline, ajjicaliy fuscous ; stigma well develo])ed, first 

 submarginal cell about twice as long as second, which receives 

 both recurrent nervures. 



Length I'd inm. 



2 c?<?. 



^EW GuiNIiA. 



