Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 7. (Budapest 1909)

Friese, H.: Die Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea

'220 d' h. fpjese apical margins of the segments narrowly fringed with pale ochraceous pubescence ; the apical segment as well as the abdomen beneath clothed with bright ferruginous. Long. 7

VA lines (= G mm). c?

. — Similarly coloured to the J ; the tarsi elongate, the posterior coxae and femora incrassate ; the basal joint of the posterior tarsi has, in the middle within, a tuberculate blunt flattened process; the tibiae are very stout and slightly curved. Champio Bay (Australia) ; c? J von New-South Wales (Sydney) und Queensland (Mackay im Mai) TURNER leg. Although both sexes are considerably larger than L. rubricatus, described in my Catalog, of Hym., from North-Australia, I am inclined to believe this may be a finely developped form of the same species the tubercle on the face of the 5 , which is rudimentary in L. rubricatus, is the most marked distinctive character

.» 63. Lithurgus dentipes SM. 1853. — Lithurgus dentipes D" SMITH, Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus. I. p. 146. 1870. — Lithurgus dentipes HORNE, Trans. Zool. Soc. London VII. 3. p. 175. « cf

. Black, the face has a clothing of very pale yellow pubescence, that on the sides of the thorax is fusco-griseous ; flagellum testaceous beneath, mandibles tridentate. Thorax the disk covered with ochraceous pubescence ; wings subhyaline, nervures ferruginous ; the legs beneath fringed with sooty-black pubescence; the apical joints of the tarsi rufotestaceous, the claw-joint as long as the three preceding ones ; the posterior coxae and femora incrassate, the latter somewhat flattened beneath and produced at its apex on each side, forming 2 flat broad teeth or spines (auch bei alratus

); the spines which arm the apex of the tibiae black, long and stout. Abdomen short, flat and having the margins slightly testaceous ; at the base, sides and apex a short black pubescence. L. 10

Va mm. Australia. » J . Dem 5 von L. atratus täuschend ähnlich, aber Kopf überall weiss behaart, Stirnhöcker mit halbkreisförmigem Band. Clypeus fast nur weiss behaart, Vorder- und Hinterthorax rein weiss behaart, Abdomen mit 5 deutlichen weissen und ganzen Fransenbinden, die ventralwärts hell durch die Scopa scheinen. L. 14 mm. Br. 4

Va mm. New-South Wales (Sydney), Neu-Pommern (Kinigunang), Qeensland (Cairns). Stephansort. Hansemann-Gebirge auf Neu-Guinea, B

ÍRÓ leg; ferner von Sydney, Cairns (Queensld.) und Bichmond Biver (Wollongbar), Bismarck