A COLLECTION OF BEES FEOM QUEENSLAND.— COCKEEELL. 201 



Avithont markings, the thorax mth scanty pale yellowish hair ; mesothorax very 

 minutely and indistinctly punctured ; area of metathorax with a median triangular 

 dull area ; scutellum bigibbous, much lighter and yellower than mesothorax ; wings 

 dusk}^ hyaline, darker at apex ; second submarginal cell large ; first recurrent 

 nervure meeting second transversocubital ; hind tibiae and tarsi with stiff golden 

 hair, blackish on upper (posterior) side of tibiae ; liind femora with a large curled 

 scopa of ver}^ pale yellowish hair ; abdomen shining, very finely and obscurely 

 punctured, the first three segments clear orange-fulvous, the others black, with dark 

 hair. 



Hab. : Brisbane, May 28, 1914 {Hacker 160). A very distinct and peculiar 

 species, allied to P. contaminatus Ckll. from Cairns, but readily known by the entirely 

 orange -fulvous thorax. 



Parasphecodes bribiensis n. sp. 



9 . Length 8 mm. or a little more ; rather long and narrow; head and thorax 

 black, abdomen dark reddivsh brown, the apical two segments suft'used with black ; 

 legs ]3iceous, the anterior tibiae with a clear ferruginous patch on inner side (about 

 basal two -thirds), beset with long reddish hair ; hair of head and thorax dull white, 

 scanty ; head broad ; mandibles with apical half red ; clypeus polished, sparsely and 

 weakly punctured ; antennae entirely dark ; tubercles prominent ; mesothorax and 

 scutellum densely and finely granular-punctate ; area of metathorax finely granular, 

 with weak irregular wrinkles ; sides of metathorax pruinose ^vith fine grejish white 

 tomentum ; posterior truncation small, depressed in middle ; tegulse pale rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; wings strongly reddened, stigma and nervures dull red ; second submarginal 

 cell broad ; first recurrent nervure meeting second transversocubital ; outer recurrent 

 and transversocubital weakened ; hind femora slender, with a curled scopa ; hair on 

 upper side of hind tibiae fuscous ; abdomen shining, without evident punctures, first 

 two segments each with a transversely oval polished swelling in each sublateral area ; 

 no hair-bands or patches. 



Hab. : Bribie Island, Nov. 2, 1913 (Hacker 91). A peculiar species, known 

 from other Parasphecodes by the brown abdomen, with oval bosses on the first two 

 segments. It could be regarded as a species of Halictus, and would then fall as follows 

 in a table of sjaecies having the mesothorax black, and the abdomen red or brown, or 

 largely so : — 



Male ; abdonien lively ferruginous, with apex broadly black . . . . . . H. disclusus Ckll. 



Females . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . ■ . . . 1. 



1. Scutellum and posSscutellum densely covered with ochreous tomentuni .. .. .. 2. 



Scutelluna and postscutellum not thus covered . . . . . . • . ■ • • • . . 3. 



Second abdominal segment with a broad black band 

 Second abdominal segment with no such band . . 

 Smaller, wings clear 

 Larger, wings smoky 



H. doddi Ckll. 



bryotrichus sordidulus Ckll. 



. . H. cycluriis Ckll. 



. . P. hribiensis Ckll. 



Parasphecodes speculiferus Cockerell. 



$. Length 7 mm. ; robust, with short broad abdomen; head, thorax, and 

 legs black. Abdomen entirely chestnut-red, with a vague purplish tint ; hair of head 

 and thorax greyish white, stained with blackish dorsally ; head broad ; mandibles 

 reddened only at extreme apex ; clypeus shining, with strong sparse punctures ; 

 antennae black, the flagellum (except basally) very obscurely brownish beneath ; 

 front extremely densely and minutely punctured ; mesothorax dull, densely and 



