258 MEMOlhS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Parasphecodes cervicalis Cockerell. 

 Described from the $. collected in Tasmania. In December, 1919, Mr. Hacker 

 took both sexes in the National Park, Queensland, where he also found the Tasmanian 

 CaUonulitta Uttleri. The specimens of $ P. cervicalis seem to differ slightly from 

 the Tasmanian form, and when Tasmanian males are available may possibly be 

 separable, but at present I am quite unable to state any valid distinctions. The 

 occurrence of supposed Tasmanian endemics at various points on the mainland 

 begins to carry the conviction that the Tasmanian bee-fauna does not represent 

 a high degree of differentiation since the separation of the island, but rather the 

 survival of a series of old species, some of which are now extinct on the mainland^ 

 while others are restricted to limited areas. 



The male of P. cervicalis is new. It resembles the female, but is more slender, 

 while the clypeus is chrome-yellow except for a large quadrate black mark on each 

 side above. Labrum, mandibles, and antennae black, the flagellura not strongly 

 moniliform. There is black hair at the apex of the abdomen ; the second ventral 

 segment has a median elevation, without any tuft of hair. The abdomen is entirely 

 black, the margins of the segments concolorous. There is a close general resemblance 

 to P. nigritus Meyer, from Tasmania. 



Parasphecodes solis n. sp. 



Male. Length nearly 10 mm., slender, head and thorax black, abdomen 

 entirely chestnut-red, suffused with dusky beyond the third segment, but with no 

 black segments or dark markings ; hair of head and thorax dull white, abundant 

 on front and sides of face ; some dark hair at end of abdomen ; labrum and mandibles 

 black or nearly ; clypeus with an extremely broad pale yellow band, emitting a 

 cuneiform extension upward ; scape short, flagellum very long, strongly monili- 

 form, the joints of the basal half marked with red beneath ; mesothorax entirely 

 dull, with a granular appearance ; scutellum bigibbous, dull, and granular, without 

 special tomentum ; area of metathorax distinctly defined, angulate posteriorly, covered 

 with very coarse wavy rugse, between which it is distinctly shining ; tegulse dull red ;. 

 wings dusky reddish, stigma dark reddish, nervures fuscous ; second lubmarginal 

 cell higher than long, receiving recurrent nervure very near its end ; femora black, 

 red at extreme apex ; tibiae red, the anterior pair clear and bright, the hind ones 

 dusky ; anterior tarsi dusky red, the others black or nearly ; abdomen moderately 

 shining, with excessively fine punctures, close and uniform on first two segments, 

 on first segment extending to the margin ; no prominence on under side of second 

 segment. 



Sunnybank, 19-11-13 {H. Hacker). In Meyer's table and in my table of 

 Tasmanian species, this runs to P. perustus Ckll., but is larger, with darker antennae, 

 &c. It resembles perustus in having the third submarginal cell much broader above 

 than second. 



