Genus and Sp. uncert. 



Victoria Desert ; one specimen, a very curious little banded 

 bee with a broad aV)domen. 



Genus and Sp. uncert. 

 .Mount Squires ; seven specimens of buri'owing bee. 



APIDJi. 



AnTHOPORA CIN(aiLATA, Fah. 



Described under the name Atidrena cimjulaM in his Systematica 

 Entomologica, vol. II., p. 314. 



This jDretty little banded bee has a very wide range over the 

 southern parts (jf Australia, and is not uncommon about Sydney.. 



Three specimens ; Nilpena, Central Australia. 



Sarapoda bombilifokmis, Smith. 



This fine bee is common about Sydney in. the summer, often 

 flying into the house!. 



One specimen ; Mount Squires. 



Ceocisa albo-macuj.ata. Smith. 



Also recorded from tlie northern parts of New South Wales 

 and Queensland. 



Mount Squires ; two specimens. 



MKfiACIIILE BlACKBURNII, ,vy;. 7iOV. 



Female. Length 8 lines, black, clothed with white hairs. 



Tongue and month parts ferruginous ; head very closely and 

 finely punctured ; face densely clothed with silvery white hairs, 

 which form a thick brush, drooping doAvn over the mandibles ; 

 cheeks behind the eyes and underside of head closely covered 

 with silvery white hairs; thorax very finely liut closely punctured 

 covered witli a close pile of white hairs on the underside and at 

 apex above. 



Fore legs ferruginous on the upper side of tibia^, under portion 

 dark-brown, tarsi produced into bright yellow pollen brush, claw 

 ferruginous, covered with white hairs ; middle legs ferruginous on 

 upper side of tibiiB and tarsi, dark-brown on underside, clothed 

 with white hairs ; tarsi ferruginous, and fringed with white hairs 

 much Ifmger at base of tarsi. 



Abdomen constricted at base of each segment with narrow 

 smooth impressed band, which is more finely punctured than 

 upper portion of segment ; first segment densely clothed in long 

 white hairs ; second segment with scattered white hairs and a 

 bright white patch of close short silvery hairs on either side ; 



