MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, Vol. VII, Part III. 

 (ISSUED NOVEIMBER 4, 1921.) 



AUSTRALIAN BEES IN THE QUEENSLAND 



MUSEUM. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell, University of Colorado. 



HYLEOIDES Smith. 

 Hyleoides striatula n. sp. 



Female. Length about 12 mm., anterior wing 10 mm. ; clypeus with a very 

 broad orange band, broadest above, where it includes the whole width of clypeus, 

 but ending abruptly some distance before the lower margin ; two small transversely 

 elongate orange spots on lower margin of supraclypeal area ; lateral face-marks 

 apparently paler, large, cuneiform ; antennse black, the flagellura faintly brownish 

 beneath, extreme apex bright ferruginous ; thorax and tegulse entirely black ; costal- 

 field of anterior wings broadly dark fuliginous ; legs black, anterior and middle 

 tibiae rufous in front, middle femora with a suffused red stripe, tarsi reddened at 

 apex ; first two abdominal segments entirely black ; third orange suffused Avith 

 red^ the base black, with an angular projection in middle line and on each side, the 

 projection of black in middle line approaching a narrow stripe from the hind margin, 

 tending to divide the orange into two parts ; fourth segment with, two very large 

 transverse orange patches, shaded with red outwardly ; fifth black with an obscure 

 orange mark on each side ; sixth black ; third ventral segment broadly margined 

 with creamy white ; first ventral segment nodulose, only about half depth of second, 

 the latter basally truncate, with a broad smooth surface. It also differs from H. 

 concinna (Fab.) by the distinctly shining mesothorax, with very minute punctures, 

 and scattered large ones ; by the strongly punctured scutellum ; by the area of 

 metathorax being distinctly striate in the middle above, and Avith its posterior face 

 narrower, its outline like that of a convolvulus ; by the shining finely punctured 

 first two segments of abdomen, and by the clypeus being very delicately and densely 

 longitudinally striate all over. 



Kuranda, Queensland (Dodd). One female. A very distinct species, easily 

 known by the sculpture and colour pattern. 



Hyleoides bivulnerata n. sp. 

 Female. Length nearly 11 mm. ; clypeus cream colour, with the low^er margin 

 black, and with a broad ferruginous band along each side except the upper part ; 

 lateral face-marks cuneiform, cream coloured, rather small, not extending below middle 

 of clypeus ; face narrowed below ; scapa red, flagellum bla,ck ; upper border of 

 prothorax red, swollen and elevated, but tubercles black ; a more or less semilunar 

 red mark behind each tubercle ; scutellum with two round red spots ; postscutellum 

 black ; tegulae piceous ; costal region of wings fuliginous as usual ; anterior femora 

 swollen ; anterior tibiae mainly dark red ; anterior tarsi peculiar, mth much stiff 

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