308 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Exoneura hamulata, Ckll., var. a. 
934c. Launceston, Jan. 25th, 1914. 
?. With the broad face of H. hamulata; clypeal mark evanescent, 
all but the upper part dark reddish; wings strongly reddened, stigma 
clear amber; hair on outer side of hind tibie ferruginous. If the 
characters are constant, this will deserve a subspecific name. A 
specimen from Victoria has equally red wings. 
I gave a list of Tasmanian bees in Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. Wales, xxxvii., p. 599. Since that time the list has been 
considerably increased, so that with the present contribution it 
includes Prosopis, seven species ; Binghamiella, one ; Huryglossa, 
three; Paracolletes, ten; Callomelitta, two ; Halictus, sixteen ; 
Parasphecodes, thirteen ; Nomia, one; Megachile, three; Exo- 
neura, three. This is in striking contrast to the very poor bee- 
fauna of New Zealand; but while it seems certain that New 
Zealand cannot produce nearly as many bees as Tasmania, it 
remains probable that careful collecting would considerably 
augment the present short list. The large proportion of new 
forms collected by Mr. Littler shows that the Tasmanian bee- 
fauna is still quite insufficiently known. 
THREE WEEKS IN DAUPHINY. 
By H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 
(Puate VII.) 
(Concluded from p. 286.) 
(i1.) Le Lauteret. 
For three whole days, from July 21st to the 28rd, it continued 
to rain or snow upon the Col de Lauteret (6950 ft.), with scarcely 
an hour’s intermission, by which time the lower valley of Oisans 
was under water, and half the country round Grenoble as well. 
The weather changed suddenly on the 24th, with a rude north 
wind, and though the skies above were clear, and the sun shone 
brightly, it was bitterly cold. Not until then was I able to 
collect, choosing the road up to the Col de Galibier as less exposed 
to the weather. The flowers, which at all events had suffered 
little from the severe drenching, were even more magnificent 
than at La Grave; and, at what seems a surprisingly late date 
for them, the white narcissus, N. poeticus var. radiflorus, was still 
in its first pride, together with the large white Anemone, Anemone 
alpina, and the handsome lofty Orobus luteus, which when going 
out of flower becomes deep orange. A. simplonia was now almost 
common. In the grass and herbage Hrebia pharte again turned up 
in swarms, with tiny E. ceto, rare HK. epiphron var. cassiope, and 
