BEES IN THE QUEENSLAND MUSE UM. — COCK E Ti EL L. 319 
Turnerella pachycephala n. sp. 
Female. Length about 2*8 mm. ; head and thorax black, the mesothorax 
microscopically reticulate and very sparsely punctured ; head large, quadrate, 
very thick, shining ; mandibles pale stramineous, with black apex, which is bidentate, 
but only the outer tooth acute ; face all black, but labrum stramineous, with long 
pale hairs ; tegulse stramineous ; wings clear, stigma pale brown, nervures colourless ; 
marginal cell very broad (deep) ; first recurrent nervure joining cubital cell some 
distance before its end : basal nervure with lower section curved, failing far short 
of nervulus ; two complete discoidals ; legs pale yellow ; antennae placed close 
together, the flagellum very short and stout, reddish beneath ; abdomen very dark 
brown, nearty black, the extreme apex dull yellowish ; venter dark brown, apically 
(more or less abruptly) stramineous. 
Two females, Aug. 10, 1913 (H. Hacker). Readily known from the other 
described species by the dark abdomen and face. It differs from typical Turnerella 
in having the cubital cell extending beyond the end of the first discoidal. 
Turnerella globuliceps (Cockerell). 
Brisbane. Feb. 12, 1918 ( H . Hacker). This was described as Euryglossella , 
but a new study of these minute bees convinces me that the latter genus should 
not include the three species described subsequently to the original type ( E . minima 
Ckll.). The two genera may be readily separated by the venation, as follows : — 
(I.) Euryglossella minima Ckll. Marginal cell not so long as in Turnerella. ; 
no trace of upper end of second intercubitus ; distance from recurrent 
nervure to intercubitus rather more than equal to length of inter- 
cubitus ; lower section of basal nervure practically straight : distance 
from lower end of basal nervure to nervulus rather more than equal 
to length of lower section of basal nervure : no second discoidal. 
(2.) Turnerella , as represented by T. globuliceps (Ckll.), T. nothula (Ckll.), 
and T. atomaria (Ckll.), until now placed in Euryglossella. Marginal 
cell long and pointed, poststigmatal part much longer than 
substigmatal ; upper end of second intercubitus present ; distance 
from recurrent nervure to intercubitus about equal to half length 
of the latter ; lower section of basal nervure strongly arched ; 
distance from basal nervure to nervulus equal to about half length 
of lower section of basal nervure (drawn too long in Meade- Waldo’s 
figure of T . gilberti Ckll.) ; second discoidal cell complete. 
Turnerella atomaria (Cockerell). 
Brisbane, Feb. 15, 1916: Sept. 19, 1916 (H. Hacker). In my original description, 
I failed to note that the mandibles have a large tooth beneath, near the base. The 
lateral face- marks may fall conspicuously short of the elypeus, or may practically 
reach it. The triangular yellow mark on the cheeks behind the mandibles is 
characteristic, but it may be small. The under side of abdomen is pale yellow. 
Turnerella atomaria var. fusciventris n. var. 
Female. Length hardly 3 mm. ; head and thorax shining black ; abdomen 
very dark, slightly purplish, the extreme apex dull red, the ventral surface dark brown : 
the following parts are reddish yellow : elypeus (the lower part dusky, and with 
very long outstanding pale hairs), !ow r er part of supraclypeal area, and lateral face- 
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