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lower half of cheeks dull red ; facial quadrangle much longer than broad ; face 
dull orange, including the long clypeus (which is narrowly reddened at sides), Long 
supraclypeal mark extending upward between antennae, and lateral marks which 
begin to narrow at level of antennae, but are quite broad at sides of lower half of 
front, and have linear extensions along orbits on upper half ; labrum orange : 
antennae entirely clear ferruginous, the scape long and slender ; mesothorax dull ; 
tegulae ferruginous ; wings hyaline, with large very dark stigma ; basal nervure 
strongly curved, falling just short of nervulus ; second cubital cell about square, 
receiving recurrent nervures very near base and apex ; abdomen red as far as middle 
of third segment, and beyond that black ; no spots or bands. 
B uny a Mts., Dec. 10, 1925 (H. Hacker). Related to H. hcematopoda Ckll., 
but much smaller, with wholly red thorax. 
Hylseus scintilla (Cockerell). 
Female. Brisbane, Sept. 12, 1916 (H. Hacker) ; Logan road, at Leptospermum, 
Sept. 12. Close to H. asperithorax (Rayment), but smaller, with shorter head and 
paler stigma. The sculpture of the mesothorax resembles that of H . asperithorax. 
Hylseus minusculus (Cockerell) var. a. 
Male. Caloundra, Jan. 20, 1916. It is evidently more robust than the type, 
and may represent a distinct species, but there is only one specimen, not in the best 
condition. The markings, long antennae, and other features agree with H. minusculus . 
Compared with H. eburnidlus (Ckll.), it is smaller, with the upward extensions of 
lateral face-marks longer, and slender, and the flagellum very long and slender. 
Hylaeus spryi Cockerell. 
Males from Maria Island, Jan. 1. and Triabunna, Dec. 27, both collected 
by G. H. Hardy. They differ from the tyjje in having a small yellow mark on scape, 
and the orange mark on postscutellum is fairly large in the Triabunna specimen. 
As noted in the original description, this is closely related to H. nubilosus (Sm.). 
In the Triabunna specimen I can see that the tongue, though very short, is pointed. 
The sides of the face are more or less evidently sulcate. Thus the species is 
transitional toward meroglossa. Meade- Waldo, in his treatment of the group in 
Genera Insectorum, places H. nubilosus in Palceorhiza , but it is not close to the type 
of that genus. The whole group of H. nubilosus is evidently to be removed from 
Hyleeus , but it is not precisely Meroqlossa or Palceorhiza. t leave the matter for 
the present, to be dealt with in my work on Australian Bees. 
Gnathoprosopis amiculina Cockerell. 
Males from Stanthorpe. Queensland, Oct. 14 and 19, 1923. 
Gnathoprosopis euxantha Cockerell. 
Males from Brookfield, Nov. 15, 1926 (H. Hacker). 
Gnathoprosopis aureopicta n. sp. 
Female. Length about 5*7 mm. ; black, with bright-orange lateral face- 
marks (broad-cuneate, ending rather obliquely about level of antennae), and upper 
border of prothorax (interrupted in middle) with tubercles also bright orange ; 
mandibles short and very broad, black, shining ; clypeus dullish ; front densely 
