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NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BEES. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



The bees described and recorded in this paper are mostly 

 in the British and Berlin Museums. In the British Museum 

 last year I was allowed to mark among the enormous accu- 

 mulations of unworked material the specimens which I 

 desired to study, and these were later sent to me. In this 

 way I was enabled to examine an unusually interesting series 

 of specimens from different parts of the world. At the same 

 time I obtained the loan of the splendid Turner collection of 

 Australian bees, also in the British Museum, and so am able 

 to make considerable additions to the known Australian 

 fauna. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Geoffrey Meade-Waldo 

 and Mr. Rowland E. Turner for their assistance and co-opera- 

 tion in all these matters. 



In the descriptions of venation the following abbreviations 

 are used : s. m. = submarginal cell ; r. n. = recurrent ner- 

 vure ; t. c. = transverso-cubital nervure ; b. n. = basal ner- 

 vure ; t. m. = transverso-medial nervure. 



Paracolletes vigllans (Smith). 



A specimen labelled " Nov. Holl. occ. Pr." (Berlin Mu- 

 seum, 2555) was found to exactly agree with Smith's ac- 

 count of Leioproctus vigilans, and also with my notes made 

 from Smith's type, but apparently to differ in having a large 

 bidentate process on the postscutellum. I asked Mr. R. E. 

 Turner to look at Smith's material in the British Museum, 

 and having done so, he reports the presence of the post- 

 scutellar process just as in the Berlin Museum example. It 

 is strange that it was overlooked both by Smith and myself. 



Paracolletes tlentiger sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 12 mm., rather slender, superficially looking just 

 like Andrenamimetica Ckll. Deep purplish-blue, strongly punctured, 

 the pubescence black and white ; hair of head mostly white, but black 

 on vertex, upper part of front, clypeus except lower corners, and scape ; 

 mandibles with an inner tooth ; clypeus mostly greenish, with dense 



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