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wind which was blowing in this very exposed place allowed me 

 to secure only two of them, and they were not in prime condition ; 

 but a little further inland in a stoneyard I picked up A. belemia 

 var. glance. This was hardly out of the net before C. edusa var. 

 helice attracted attention, and proved to be an extremely fine and 

 large specimen, measuring when set 53 mm. from tip to tip of 

 the expanded wings. 



(To be concluded.) 



A NEW GENUS OF AUSTEALIAN BEES. 



By T. D. a. Cockbrell. 



In the ' Entomologist,' October, 1910, I gave an account of 

 some small and very peculiar Australian bees. I have now 

 received from Mr. Rowland Turner a number of specimens, 

 including two new species which must be assigned to still 

 another genus, remarkable for the fact that the third discoidal 

 and second submarginal cells are completely confluent. The 

 types will be placed in the British Museum. 



Heterapis, n. gen. 



Small bees related to Euryglossa ; stigma large ; marginal cell 

 pointed on costa ; first submarginal and first and second discoidal 

 cells complete ; third discoidal and second submarginal confluent, 

 the nervure which should separate them wholly absent ; lower section 

 of basal nervure arched, falling far short of transversomedial ; claws 

 in female cleft, pulvillus large ; anterior tarsi with modified hairs ; 

 suture between clypeus and supraclypeal area obliterated. Type 

 H. delicata, n. sp. 



Heterapis delicata, n. sp. 



$ . Length about 3^ mm. ; elongate, black, with hyaline wings ; 

 mandibles and labrum pale reddish, as also apical middle of clypeus ; 

 mandibles dark and bidentate at apex ; inner orbits very narrowly 

 margined with yellow ; antennae pale beneath, including a stripe on 

 scape ; abdomen faintly purplish, the first segment smooth, the 

 others microscopically transversely lineolate. Ocelli large, in a 

 triangle ; head oblong, like some Proctotrypid ; mesothorax very 

 minutely punctured and lineolate ; metathorax elongated, longer than 

 broad, with a large upper surface, which is microscopically cancellate ; 

 abdomen not much longer than thorax. Anterior tibiae yellow in 

 front ; hind tibiae with base broadly yellowish-white ; anterior tarsi 

 pale reddish, beneath with curious thick subclavate hairs ; claws 

 bifid at end ; pulvillus very large. Base of mandibles making an 

 angle with base of eye, as in Turnerella ; facial foveas linear ; clypeus 

 not defined above, but from its lateral sutures evidently very high, its 

 upper suture wholly wanting, its surface with sparse minute piliferous 

 punctures and feeble microscopical lineolation ; antennae 12-jointed, 



