THE ANXALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HIS TOE 7. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



" perlitoraspargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiun vitreos eonsidite fontes : 

 PoUice virgineo teneros hie carpite florea : 

 Floribus et pictum. dirae, replete canistruni. 

 At vos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reeurrato Tariata eorallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, etpinjjui conehylia succo." 



N.Partheiiii GianneftMi, Eel. 1. 



No. 91. JULY 1915. 



I. — Descriptiotis and Records of Bees. — LXVIII. 

 By T. D. A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado. 



Pi'osopis palavanica, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 6 mm. 



Robust, black, head and thorax densely punctured, abdo- 

 men shining ; head broad, clypeus high ; large triangular 

 patch on clypeus, confluent with an apical band, lateral face- 

 marks (but no supraclypeal mark), and narrow stripe on 

 outer side of the short scape all yellow ; lateral face-marks 

 filling space between clypeus and eye, abruptly truncate 

 above just below level of antennae, but sending a narrow 

 band beyond, up along the orbital margin to about level of 

 middle of front ; labrum and mandibles black ; flagellum 

 stout, submoniliform, very obscure brownish beneath ; meso- 

 thorax more coarsely punctured than front; tubercles (but 

 not tegulee) with a yellow spot; area of metathorax coarsely 

 irregularly wrinkled, the sinuses between the wrinkles 

 shining; tegulge piceous. Wings greyish hyaline, stigma 

 and nervures piceous ; tirst r. n. meeting first t.-c. ; second 

 s.m. much broader than high (as in P. tayala, Ashm.). Legs 

 black, anterior tibiai broadly yellow in front, anterior tarsi 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Fol. xvi. 1 



