AUSTBALIAN BEES IN THE QUEENSLAND AIUSEUM.—COCKEHELL. 



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AUSTRALIAN 



BEES IN THE QUEENSLAND 

 MUSEUM. 



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



PARASPHECODES Smith. 



This genus, which is very closely allied to Halictus, consists of a large number 

 of species, nearly all apparently with very restricted distribution. They may be 

 oligotropic on particular flowers, but at present we know hardly anything of their 

 habits. Smith described a number of species, giving them names which are anagrams 

 of Halictus. I have examined the types of all of these, but to my surprise I fail to 

 find them in the various Austrahan collections coming to hand in recent years. The 

 genus is especially south-eastern, with no less than twenty-one species described 

 from Tasmania, and nineteen from Victoria, one of the latter extending to Tasmania. 

 Two of the Victoria species go north to Queensland, which has eight species and 

 a subspecies of a Victoria one not known elsewhere. From South Australia five 

 species have been described, but from West Austraha only two, and N.W. Australia 

 one. Two are only known from N.S. Wales. The series now before me from the 

 Queensland Museum (to which the types will be returned) adds a number of species, 

 separable from one another as follows : — 



black 



Clypeus partly yellow : males 



Clypeus all black ; females 



Abdomen entirely black ; mesothorax glaucous 



Abdomen partly or wholly red 



Abdomen wholly chestnut -red ; tubercles entirely 



Abdomen partly black . . 



Tegulse light ferruginous 



Tegulse black 



Abdomen entirely black 



Abdomen at least partly red 



Area of metathorax short, distinctly plicate, with a prominent raised rim 



1. 



4. 



cerviculis Cockerell. 

 2. 



soUs n. sp. 

 3. 



longm'ini n. sp. 

 siibrussatus n. sp. 



5. 

 6. 



cervicalis Cockerell. 

 Area of metathorax long, feebly sculptured, subemarginate at apex, without a raised 



rim . . . . . . . . paramelcenus n. sp. 



6. Flagellum red beneath lichatinus n. sp. 



Flagellum wholly black . . . . . . • • • • • • • • • • ■ • • • '^• 



7. Larger ; fourth abdominal segment entirely black . . . . . . hirtiventris n. sp. 



Smaller ; fourth abdominal segment red annexus n. sp. 



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