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Psyche 
[June 
brown; wings greyish hyaline, stigma small, dark brown; 
second cubital cell nearly square; first recurrent nervure 
meeting second intercubitus; legs brownish black, with 
pale hair; hind margins of tergites with short pale hair, 
not forming conspicuous bands. 
Babinda, Queensland, April 8-16, 1919 (Williams). 
Readily known among the metallic species by the small 
size and blue color, with dark tegulss and mainly black 
abdomen. 
Meroglossa chiropterina n. sp. 
9 . Length about 7.5 mm. ; robust, black, with the light 
markings of head and thorax bright chrome yellow, con- 
sisting of face, and broad lateral marks going nearly up to 
level of end of scape, tubercles and quadrate spot behind, 
axillae, scutellum and postscutellum; clypeus with a shield- 
like elevation, much longer than broad, the sulcus on each 
side of it black; supraclypeal mark a narrow triangle in 
middle of supraclypeal area, or it may be absent, and the 
clypeal yellow may be strongly notched above in middle; 
mandibles, molar space and cheeks black; scape swollen, 
ferruginous, black above at apex; flagellum black above, 
light ferruginous beneath ; mesothorax dull and very 
densely punctured ; tegulas black ; wings hyaline, with dull 
ferruginous stigma and nervures; first recurrent nervure 
meeting first intercubitus ; legs black ; abdomen black, 
simple, closely punctured. 
3 s, Halifax, June 1-17, 1919 (Williams) . In structure 
more like M. eucalypti Ckll., but by the black abdomen more 
like M. sculptissima Ckll. These bees belong to the sub- 
genus Meroglossula Perkins. The specific name is derived 
from the resemblance of the face to that of a bat. 
Palseorhiza disrupta (Cockerell) 
Five from Babinda, April 16; one from Halifax, May 
9-15; all collected by Williams. The Babinda specimens 
vary in the markings of the postscutellum which may be 
all green, to yellow with a green central band. 
