476 ^Ir. T. D. A. Cockcrell — Descriptions and 



liidentatc, the inner tooth short (style of P. hovd), basal 

 part of mandibles mainly very pale yellowish ; scape with a 

 vellow stripe iu front. Face, front, and vertex with lon^ 

 black hair, but also white at sides of face and (appressed) 

 on each side of labrnra ; occiput and cheeks with long white 

 liair ; mesothorax shininjj, but distinctly punctured ; scu- 

 trllum only feebly bigibbous ; thorax with black hair, 

 becoming obscurely ochreous along anterior margin of 

 mcsothorax, bright ochreous (forming a conspicuous wide 

 band) on metathorax, and pure white in middle of ventral 

 surface. Legs with mainly black hair ; anterior tibife with 

 a band of appressed golden pubescence in front ; tegulie 

 l)lack. Wings dilute fuliginous; venation as in P. micre- 

 Iffihas, but second s.ni. narrower. Abdomen closely punc- 

 tured, basal segment with black hair; apical margin of 

 second segment, and all of next three except base, covered 

 with appressed bright ferruginous pubescence; sixth seg- 

 ment with hair partly red and partly black ; apical plate 

 eraarginate. 



Miarinarivo, Madagascar (Queensl. Museum ; from Le 

 Moult). 



Similar to P. camhoiiei, Sauss., but that is a very much 

 larger species, Avith the scutellum different. 



Hyleoides concinniis (Fabricius). 



Launceston, Tasmania, Feb. 15-16, 1916 (F. M. Littler). 



Genus new to Tasmania. The female agrees with main- 

 land specimens ; but the male, compared with one from 

 Sydney, differs by the wholly black prothorax and the more 

 distinct punctures of second abdominal segment. 



Megachile derelicta, Cockerell. 



? ,— St. Patrick's R., Tasmania, 6.2.14 {Littler). 

 New to Tasmania. 



Mesotrichia bryorum (Fabricius). 



Darn, Papua (Queensland Mus.). 



The female has the wings suffused with rosy-purplish, 

 whereas Australian examples usually have them much more 

 green. 



Eulaima amabilis, sp. n. 



S ■ — At first sight exactly like ^. hruesi, Ckll., but 

 differing thus : green of mcsothorax more brilliant, extend- 

 ing along the sides to the posterior end, where it is very 



