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A SMALL COLLECTION OF BEES FROM TASMANIA. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 

 (Communicated hy W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.) 



Comparatively little is known of the bees of Tasmania, so it 

 may be worth while to report on a small collection sent by Mr. 

 W. W. Froggatt, obtained by the well-known entomologist, Mr. 

 Arthur M. Lea. The specimens bear two sets of numbers, one 

 by Mr. Froggatt, the other by Mr. Lea. I Imve cited both, 

 placing the Froggatt number first in each case. 



{\. )C aUomelitta picta ^vmth. Magnet(140, 6456). 



(2.)Parasphecodes excultus, n.sp. Magnet(134, 6459). 



^.Length about 9 mm.; head, thorax and legs black; abdomen 

 with the second and third segments, and apical part of first very 

 broadly, bright red, the red also extending along the sides of first 

 segment; I'est of abdomen black, the fourth segment with a very 

 faint, hardly noticeable, reddish band across the middle, and the 

 broad hind margin slightly brownish; on the ventral side the 

 fourth segment is red at sides except apically; head and thorax 

 with rather long pale hair; some fuscous hair about the ocelli, 

 and fuscous hairs intermixed on face; hair of legs moderately 

 abundant, orange-tinted on inner side of tarsi, purplish-fuscous 

 on outer side of basitarsi; hind femora with a large curled creamy- 

 white floccus; hind tibiae with shining white hair on inner side, 

 contrasting with the pui^plish-fuscous behind; flagellum obscurely 

 ferruginous beneath, longitudinally depressed or furrowed; rest 

 of head, and thorax, dullish, minutely rugose; mesothorax rather 

 coarsely rugose-punctate; area of metathorax distinctly defined 

 behind, covered with dense irregular longitudinal rugae, the 

 wrinkles variously incomplete or anastomosing; tegulse rufous 

 with a fuscous spot; wings reddish-hyaline, first recurrent nervure 

 meeting second trans verso-cubital; outer nervures not weakened; 



