7?' cor(?s of Been. 533 



Mi'yachile mocuhiris^ Dal la Torif. 



Queensland {Gilbert Tiinirr, 295 Hy. and 622, Seaf. 3. 90). 

 The piibeseence of the tlmrax and ahilonien above varies 

 from decided oelireoiis to yellowish wliite. 



Meyachile Hampsnjii^ sp, n. 



9 . — Lenfjtli about 11- mm. 



Abdomen lonj; and parallel-sided ; blaek, with l}lack, white, 

 and oraufie {)ub('seenee. the latter only on the abdomen; 

 head large, but cheeks and vertex rather narrow, the distance 

 from a posterior oeellns to marj^in of occiput less than the 

 distance to opposite posterior ocellus ; liead and thorax above 

 densely and strongly punctured, but on scutellum, and 

 especially on hind middle of mesothorax, the shining surface 

 is very apparent between the punctures ; clypcus and supra- 

 elypcal area with very large punctures, the latter i)unctured 

 all over ; anterior edge of elypeus straiglit; Hagellum dark 

 reddish beneath; mandibles black, only the extreme tip dark 

 reddish, cutting-edge notched near the tip, but otherwise 

 the teeth obsolete ; sides of face, and cheeks, with much 

 white hair; hair of front dull pale oehreous, of vertex short 

 and (lark fuscous ; a conspicuous tuft of white hair just 

 below tegulje, and sides of metathorax and lower part of 

 pleura with much white hair ; upper part of pleura, extreme 

 sides of scutellum, and mesothorax just above tegnlse, with 

 black hair ; tegulje rufo-piceous, with a large fulvous spot 

 j)osteriorly. \N ings dusky, nervures black, second recurrent 

 nervure exactly meeting seeonl transverso-cubital ; upper 

 part of marginal cell with a fuliginous streak. Legs black, 

 Avith white pubescence; the claws ferruginous, with a slender 

 obli(jue basal denticle; hind spurs blaek ; basal joint of hind 

 tarsi broad and Hat, the hair on its inner surface reddish 

 chocolate. First abdominal segment broadly concave, with a 

 tuft of white hair on each side ; segments 2 to 4- with short 

 black hair (except basally, where they are nude), and with 

 narrow, but very distinct marginal hair-bands, wliite at 

 the extreme sides, but otherwise orange ; filth segment with 

 the marginal band orange, but the orange also invades the 

 disk, leaving tlie blaek only at the sides ; sixth with the base 

 broadly covered with orange tomentum ; ventral scopa long 

 and white, black on the last segment and at extreme siiles 

 of penultimate one. 



Uab. Fremantle [J. J. Walker, 1938). 



Named after Sir (1. I\ llanipson, of the British Museum. 



