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Pachyprosopis georgica n sp. 
Female. Length about 6-3 mm. ; head very large, wider than thorax, vertex 
and cheeks very large, eyes diverging below ; clypeus very broad and short, the centre 
with a great deep basin about twice as broad as long, the whole polished, impunctate ; 
mandibles very broad, bidentate, with a long apical tooth, and the base so placed 
that it is not at all parallel with the lower end of the eye, which touches the upper 
comer ; cheeks beneath with a very large curved red tooth ; surface of head 
polished and shining, reddish black, with the clypeus, mandibles (except apex), 
and cheeks posteriorly red, the red gradually shading into the darker colour of the 
other parts : antennae pale red, scape very slender : prothorax, mesothorax, and 
scutellum shining terra-cotta red, other parts of thorax reddish black ; teguke dark ; 
wings hyaline, with dark stigma and nervures, second cubital cell long and narrow 
as usual in the genus, its form approximately lanceolate ; basal nervure arched, 
falling a long way short of nervulus ; first recurrent joining first cubital cell near 
end ; legs bright ferruginous : abdomen with first segment and sides and base of 
second terra-cotta red, the rest black. 
King George’s Sound, W.A. (no other particulars known), A very distinct 
species, easily known by the large head, toothed below, the red mesothorax and 
scutellum, and the abdomen red basally and black apically. 
PSEUDHYLiKUS new genus. 
With the broad face and general build of Euryglossa, to which the species 
have been referred, but face markings more as in Hylceus. Mandibles pointed, 
moderately acute, simple in female, with an inner tooth in male ; a small malar space, 
Caudal end of female very bristly, with no pygidial plate. Basal nervure 
moderately arched, not reaching nervulus ; second cubital cell large and broad, 
receiving recurrent nervures near base and apex. Type P. albocuneatus ( Euryglossa 
albocuneata Ckll.), and also including P. hypoleucus (Euryglossa hypoleuca Ckll.). 
These insects have had no satisfactory resting place, and it seems best to separate 
them as a distinct genus. 
Pseudhylseus albocuneatus (Cockerell). 
Two females, one male : Charleville, Queensland, Sept. 9-12, 1920 
(A. J . Turner). The male is new. It is very like the male of P. hypoleucus, but larger 
and more robust, with the lateral face -marks more gradually attenuate above ; scape 
thick, all black, flagellum very short, reddened beneath apically ; mandibles with 
a fight stripe, but lower side black ; tegulae dusky hyaline, with a large cream- 
coloured spot ; third abdominal sternite with a very large outstanding black broadly 
truncate lamina. The labrum is sparsely covered with erect golden hairs. The 
anterior tibiae are very broad, pale yellowish flushed with ferruginous, with a black 
stripe behind. The hind margins of the abdominal segments are broadly dull 
whitish, the first somewhat reddened. Stigma dark reddish brown. 
Trigona cassise Cockerell. 
Mr. Harold Hockings sends numerous examples, with the following interesting 
notes : — “ Kootchar (native name) is from Brisbane district and exists in a wide 
area, many hundreds of miles north, south, and west, occupying tree hollows. 
Entrance to hive is through a tube of resinous mixture, which projects about an 
inch outwards from original opening; its diameter is from half to three-quarters inch; 
this tube is continued on the inner wall of the hive, into the food store. At night, 
outer opening is closed by a sheet of minute globules of sticky gum. Pollen and 
