﻿Records 
  of 
  Bees. 
  1 
  il 
  

  

  Paracolletes 
  providus, 
  Sraitli. 
  

  

  Near 
  Melbourne 
  (Nat. 
  Mus. 
  Vict. 
  262) 
  ; 
  no 
  locality 
  

   (Nat. 
  Mus. 
  Vict. 
  87) 
  ; 
  N.S. 
  Wales 
  {J. 
  A. 
  Kershaw, 
  N.t. 
  

   Mus. 
  Vict. 
  83). 
  

  

  Paracolletes 
  viridicinctus 
  , 
  Cockerell. 
  

  

  Croydon, 
  Jan. 
  11, 
  1909 
  {S. 
  W. 
  Fulton 
  ; 
  Nat. 
  Mus. 
  Vict. 
  

   91, 
  92, 
  91<). 
  Perhaps 
  not 
  quite 
  typical, 
  but 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  

   separated. 
  

  

  Parasphecodes 
  venniculatus 
  , 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  ^ 
  . 
  — 
  Length 
  9 
  mm. 
  

  

  Parallel-sided, 
  not 
  very 
  slender 
  ; 
  head, 
  tiiorax, 
  and 
  the 
  

   long 
  antennae 
  black 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  with 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  broadly 
  

   cream-colour, 
  the 
  liglit 
  area 
  coming 
  to 
  a 
  point 
  in 
  middle 
  

   above 
  ; 
  labrum 
  black, 
  with 
  the 
  transverse 
  projecting 
  ed^-e 
  

   ferruginous 
  ; 
  mandibles 
  black 
  ; 
  tongue 
  short 
  and 
  broad 
  • 
  

   hair 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  dnll 
  greyish 
  white, 
  rather 
  scanty 
  ; 
  

   eyes 
  strongly 
  converging 
  below 
  ; 
  mesothorax 
  and 
  scutellum 
  

   entirely 
  dull 
  and 
  minutely 
  granular; 
  pleura 
  rugulose; 
  area 
  

   of 
  metathorax 
  large, 
  sharply 
  bounded 
  in 
  middle 
  behind, 
  

   entirely 
  covered 
  with 
  strong 
  vermiform 
  rugae, 
  the 
  depressions 
  

   between 
  them 
  shining, 
  and 
  quite 
  without 
  a 
  smooth 
  posterior 
  

   margin 
  ; 
  tegulae 
  dark 
  rufous 
  with 
  a 
  darker 
  spot. 
  Wings 
  

   hyaline, 
  conspicuously 
  dusky 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  stigma 
  dark 
  rufous, 
  

   nervures 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  second 
  s.m. 
  very 
  broad; 
  first 
  r. 
  n. 
  meetino- 
  

   second 
  t.-c. 
  ; 
  third 
  s.m. 
  quadrate, 
  broad 
  above, 
  with 
  the 
  

   outer 
  side 
  bulging; 
  outer 
  nervures 
  not 
  weakened; 
  femora 
  

   black, 
  with 
  the 
  knees 
  red 
  ; 
  tibiae 
  bright 
  chestnut-red, 
  the 
  

   hind 
  ones 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  suffused 
  with 
  dusky 
  ; 
  tarsi 
  black, 
  

   with 
  apex 
  of 
  last 
  joint 
  red. 
  Abdomen 
  bright 
  chestnut-red, 
  

   the 
  fifth 
  segment 
  and 
  beyond 
  black 
  or 
  nearly 
  ; 
  first 
  two 
  

   segments 
  very 
  minutely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  suture 
  between 
  first 
  

   and 
  second 
  somewhat 
  depressed, 
  but 
  not 
  that 
  between 
  second 
  

   and 
  third 
  ; 
  first 
  segment 
  wholly 
  red 
  ; 
  no 
  lateral 
  hair-patclies 
  ; 
  

   a 
  black 
  patch 
  on 
  ventral 
  side 
  at 
  extreme 
  base. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Australia, 
  presumably 
  Victoria 
  ; 
  Nat. 
  Mus. 
  Victoria, 
  

   173, 
  presented 
  by 
  G. 
  F. 
  Gill. 
  

  

  In 
  my 
  table 
  in 
  Ann. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hit.t., 
  Sept. 
  1904, 
  this 
  

   runs 
  to 
  P. 
  stuchila, 
  Sm., 
  dift'ering 
  by 
  the 
  densely 
  wrinkled 
  

   base 
  of 
  metathorax, 
  first 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  (dorsal) 
  entirely 
  

   red, 
  third 
  segment 
  not 
  depressed 
  at 
  base, 
  and 
  first 
  r. 
  n, 
  

   meeting 
  second 
  t.-c. 
  Otherwise 
  it 
  agrees 
  with 
  Smithy's 
  

   account 
  of 
  P. 
  stuchila, 
  and 
  my 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  type. 
  The 
  

  

  