204 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell on Bees in the 



L. vestitus {Dasycolletes vestitus, Sm.) it differs by its larger 

 size, brown- black instead of purple-black abdomen, decidedly 

 yellowish tint of pubescence, and longer and looser scopa of 

 hind tibia ; but it is closely allied. These comparisons are 

 based on females ; the male L. Boltoni differs from male 

 L. 'purpureus [Dasycolletes pur pur eus, Sm.) by its larger size 

 and differently coloured abdomen and antenna. 



L. imitatus, Sm., differs from Ij. Boltoni by its smaller size, 

 with the abdomen faintly purplish, and the hair on outer side 

 of hind tibise not black at base. The abdomen is really only 

 faintly seneous, not distinctly purple as in vestitus, and not 

 so shining. The size of vestitus and imitatus is the same, and 

 they are quite congeneric. 



Leioproctus confusus, sp. n. 



? . — Similar to L. imitatus, but first recurrent nervure joins 

 second submarginal cell much before its middle (at its middle 

 in imitatus), and basal area of metathorax transversely striate 

 (not so in imitatus^. Stigma well-developed ; hind spur of 

 hind tibise very finely pectinate, or could be called long-ciliate ; 

 second recurrent nervure practically straight ; abdomen with- 

 out hair-bands. The wings are yellower than in imitatus^ 

 and the abdominal segments have dark reddish hind margins. 



Hah. New Zealand. 



The characters are few, but quite sufficiently distinctive. 

 With this and the last, the New- Zealand bee-fauna numbers 

 18 species. 



Saropoda alpha, sp. n. 



S ' — Differs from S. homhiformis, Sm., by its smaller size 

 (length less than 12 mm.), hair on hind tarsi entirely black, 

 except a small orange tuft at base above ; lateral margins of 

 clypeus with a rather broad black band; flagellum ferruginous 

 beneath except base of first joint ; legs dark, though with 

 much orange hair, i. e. covered above with orange hair, 

 beneath with black, except that hind tarsi are as just described; 

 the bidentate apex of abdomen covered with black hair (ful- 

 vous in homhiformis) . 



Hah. Australia. 



This is Smithes var. a of S. homhiformis', it is evidently 

 a distinct species. It has a rather strong superficial re- 

 semblance to the Mexican Emphoropsis fulvus [Habropoda 

 fulva^ Sm.). 



Ctenoplectra vagans^ sp. n. 

 $ . — Runs to C. chalyhea in Bingham's table, and is in fact 



