NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BEES

Extract

Chelynia rubifloris, n. sp.—♀. Eight mm. long, black, with sparse grayish and white pubescence. Head almost as large as thorax, quadrate, produced behind the eyes, checks very broad; cheeks, vertex and face very strongly and closely punctured; region of antennae with some dull white hair; ocelli in a triangle; antennae rather short, black, last joint compressed, funicle longer than first flagellar joint, first flagellar joint conspicuously longer than second or third; clypeus broad and low, punctured all over, its anterior margin bearing a small tooth at each side, and in the middle a long, narrow projection, like the thoracic spine of some species of Oxybelus. Mandibles black, stout, obscurely bidentaie at the obliquely truncate ends. Labrum greatly produced, hollowed beneath, sides parallel, end truncate. Tongue very long, linear; maxillae greatly elongated; penultimate jount of labila palpi boradened at apex, shorter than the last; basal joint not quite half, but more than one-third, length of second; maxillary palpi small, three-jointed, the joints subequal. Thorax rather small, strongly and closely punctured; base of metathorax coarsely wrinkled, bounded by an obtuse rim. Tegulae black, punctured. Wings smoky, nervures and stigma black, stigma well-fromed but small; marginal cell long, with an obtuse apex away from costa; two submarginal cells, second receiving first recurrent nervure at a distance from base nearly equal to length of first recurrent nervure at a distance form base nearly equal to length of first transverso-cubital nervure, and second recurrent very near the apex. Legs baack, with thin whitish pubscence. Abdomen punctured, with obsure silvery pile towards the end; hind margins of segments with white hair-bands, very broadly interrupted on the first three segments, on the first reduced to lateral patches. Venter with a fairly abundant white scopa.