290 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



broad lateral face-marks (filling space between clypeus and 

 eye, and ending squarely, hardly at all narrowed, at about 

 level of upper part of antennal sockets), anterior lateral 

 corners of mesothorax very broadly, scutellum, postscutellum, 

 and a very large triangular mark (one side basal) on each 

 side of second abdominal segment ; cheeks (which are 

 small), pleura, metathorax, legs, and basal part of abdomen 

 obscurely dark reddish; face very broad; clypeus shining, 

 with scattered unequal punctures; flagellum ochraceous 

 beneath; front, vertex, and mesothorax dullish with a satiny 

 lustre ; tubercles very low down on sides of thorax ; tegulse 

 piceous. Wings hyaline ; stigma dark reddisli, nervures 

 lighter; first r. n. joining second s.m. at a distance from 

 base hardly equal to half length of first t.-c. ; anterior 

 femora swollen, their tibire thick, with a light yellow stripe 

 in front ; middle tibioe with a yellow spot near apex ; hind 

 spur with about six teeth; fifth abdominal segment dorsally 

 with much dark fuscous hair; apical plate ferruginous, 

 narrow-spatulate. 



Hab. Cheltenham, Victoria, 1909 (French). Froggatt 

 coll., no. 100. 



A member of the E. quadrimaculata group, wholly dis- 

 tinct by the peculiar marking of the abdomen. 



Euryghssa calliopsella, Ckll, 



Two females are from Sydney, New South "Wales, Xov. 29, 

 1910 [jr. IV. Froggatt, 128). 



A male is from Sydney, Dec. 1, 1910 {JV. Jf. Froggatt, 

 103). The male, not previously known, ditlers by the scape 

 being yellow in front; flagellum thicker, and pointed at 

 apex ; frontal mark broadly rounded or convex above, and 

 very broadly joined to supraclypeal ; discal yellow stripes of 

 mesothorax broad and dentate on inner side anteriorly, but 

 rapidly narrowing, to fail posteriorly ; anterior corners of 

 mesothorax very broadly yellow ; scutellum, axiUai, and 

 postscutellum yellow ; sides of thorax nearly all yellow, but 

 a black band from wings to hind legs ; trochanters, femora, 

 and tibire l)right yellow, anterior femora and tibiae with a 

 dusky mark behind, middle tibiaj dark brown on outer side, 

 hind tibiic outwardly broadly black. Abdomen black dor- 

 sally, with narrow yellow bands at bases of second and third 

 segments; venter yellow, with hind margins of segments 

 brown ; extreme sides with yellow patches : apex tufted with 

 fulvous hair, but dorsal hair of fifth and sixth segments 

 black. The distance of the first r. n. from the base of 

 second s.m. is variable. 



