THE ANIMALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 90. JUNE 1915. 



XLVIT. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXVII. 

 By T. D. A. CocKERELL^ University of Colorado. 



Paracolletes versicolor (Smith, 1853). 



Mt. Wellington, Tasmania, 1300-2300 ft., Jan. 15-Feb. 6, 

 1913, 1 ?,2 (J [R. E. Turner). The female was described 

 by Smith ; the male is P. spatulatus, Ckll., 1905. In the 

 same locality, at about the same time, Mr. Turner took a 

 male P. providellus bacchaUs, Ckll., var. a. Both species 

 were described from the mainland of" Australia. 



Paracolletes pachyodontus,'sp. n. 

 (^ . — Length 8-9 mm. 



Black, with the mandibles red (except at extreme base), 

 and the abdomen with approximately the lateral thirds of 

 first three segments, as well as apical bands on the first 

 four, deep chestnut-red ; hair of head and thorax long and 

 dull white, abundant on face, but vertex, mesothorax (except 

 anteriorly), and most of scutellum with dark fuscous hair; 

 a little fuscous hair below tegulae ; clypeus with sparse 

 strong punctures ; supraclypeal area jU'ominent, smooth, and 

 shining ; antennae short and thick, like those of a female, 

 the flagellum red beneath ; vertex strongly punctured ; 

 mesothorax. finely and densely punctured, but glistening; 

 postscutellura with a thick short median tooth ; tegulie 

 piceous, punctured. Wings with the apical margin broadly 

 dusky, stigma and nervures piceous ; second s.m. small, 

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