THE ENTOMOLOGIST 
Vou. XLVII.] DECEMBER, 1914. [No. 619 
SOME TASMANIAN BEES. 
By T. D. A. CockERELu. 
I ative a list of the bees recently collected in Tasmania by 
Mr. F. M. Littler, and kindly forwarded to me by Mr. Walter W. 
Froggatt. Other specimens, with the same numbers, have been 
retained in Australia. 
Paracolletes marginatus. Smith, 245c¢ (2331) and 244c¢ (23382). 
The scape is black in both sexes; in males from Victoria it is 
red. Bridport, Oct. 26th—80th, 1913. 
Paracolletes launcestonensis, n. sp. 
936 c. Launceston, Jan. 25th, 1914. 
@. Length about 8 mm.; head, thorax and legs black, the small 
joints of tarsi reddish; abdomen very dark greenish, the hind margins 
of first two segments appearing narrowly ferruginous, but at least at 
sides of first segment the colour is actually on extreme base of 
the one following; tegule and extreme base of anterior wings 
bright apricot colour; wings fuliginous, darkest in the costo-apical 
region; stigma large, black, nervures dark fuscous ; flagellum wholly 
dark. Pubescence scanty; sides of face and cheeks with thin white 
hair; hair of vertex erect, pale, slightly brownish ; clypeus shining, 
sparsely punctured; supraclypeal area duller, elevated, not punctured ; 
front with a dull sericeous surface; anterior corners of mesothorax 
with a little pale ochreous hair (slight approach to condition of 
humerosus and zrroratus); tubercles densely fringed with white hair; 
sides of metathorax with long white hair; mesothorax dullish, with 
sparse feeble punctures; postscutellum dull and rough, contrasting 
with the shining scutellum; area of metathorax large, bounded by 
an impressed line which is gently curved outward and is not beaded ; 
scopa of hind tibize white, dark fuscous above basally; b. n. meeting 
t.m.; first r. n. joining second s.m. a little beyond middle, second 
joining third s.m. at apical corner; hair at apex of abdomen fuscous, 
not very abundant; under side of abdomen with curled white hairs. 
By the dark wings, this resembles P. obscuripennis, Ckll., but is 
easily separated by the tegule, metathorax, &c. 
Callomelitta littlert, n. sp. 
249, c (2324). Launceston, Jan. 25th, 1914. 
¢. Length about 9 mm.; anterior wing 7:5. Similar to C. picta, 
Sm., but smaller; mesothorax, tubercles and axille terracotta red, 
ENTOM.—DECEMBER, 1914. 206 
