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fcnuilo broad ami pyriforin ; in male very brou'.l, constricted 

 below middle, with a narrow lateral mark (sharply pointed 

 above) on each side. IMenra oT male not conspieuonsly 

 hairy as it is in A. simiUhna. 



I/a/,. Varrawin, N.S.W. [Fro(/<jiitl , 21!) c), 2 <?,!?• 

 ilvidenlly a di:stinct species, but close to A. slinilliiuti. 

 The lorm ol" the face-mark in the female readily dislinjjnislies 

 it from -/. Hiiiculur, Sm. 



Exoncura clarissima, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about o mm. 



Black, the abdomen bright ferrnginons, du-iky at sides of 

 apex, and the tirst segment black with a narrow red apical 

 margin ; mandibles black, with a broad orange band just 

 before the apex ; labnim and clypeus white, the white of the 

 elypeus notched on each side below the middle, and the part 

 below the notch appearing especially broad because a very 

 narrow white lateral face-mark (not reaching eye) is con- 

 tiguous with it on each side ; eyes large, but not remarkably 

 so; scape and second antcnnal joint white in front, flagelluiii 

 dull ferruginous beneath ; thorax shining; tuijcrcies ai)icallv 

 white. AN'ings hyaline, not reddened ; knees broadly, and 

 all the til)iie and tarsi, bright ferruginous. 



Hub. Varrawin, N.S.W. {Fro(j[jutt, "Z'Z^c). 



Readily known by the small size and broad white face- 

 patch, broadly truncate above. There are several small 

 species known only in the female, but it does not seem 

 probable that E. clarissima belongs with any of them. 



Andrena jacoba'u, sp. n. 



? . — Length a little over 12 mm. 



l?lack, the head, thorax, and two basal segments of abdo- 

 men with ferruginous hair, very bright fox-red on head and 

 thorax above, but black on nj)ptr half of cheeks, sides of 

 front overlapping fovcie, and lower part of sides of meta- 

 thorax ; legs with hair mostly black, but dark coppery 

 reddish on inner side of tarsi, light ferruginous on under side 

 of anterior and middle femora, long and abundant cm anterior 

 femora ; long curled tloceus on hind trochanters also light 

 ferruginous ; first two dorsal alidominal segments with 

 fulvous hair, the others with black hair, with fulvous inter- 

 mixed on third, and slightly on fourth ; venter with black 

 hair. The abdomen is not at all banded. Facial (piadiangle 



