Records of Bees. 499 



one or two small, evanescent, yellow spots more posteriorly ; 

 first r. n. meeting first t.-c. 



Hob. Townsville, Queensland ; two females, 10. 1. 03 

 {F. P.Dodd). British Museum. From the Turner collection. 



It is obvious that elegant), huseloides, and husela are very 

 closely related ; perhaps they are all forms of one species, 

 but I treat husela as specifically distinct because it has a very 

 striking appearance, and among the rather numerous P. elegans 

 I have seen there has been nothing at all like it. 



Pakeorhiza melanura, sp. n. 



? . — Length 9 mm. 



Head and thorax light rather dull yellow, marked with 

 black ; abdomen light reddish testaceous or honey-colour, 

 entirely black, with black hair, beyond the third segment; head 

 long, face narrow, malar space large ; front densely punctured, 

 sides of vertex shining and sparsely punctured ; facial foveas 

 represented by grooves near the eye on vertex ; vertex black, 

 and a broad black stripe extending downward to each an- 

 tenna, leaving between a narrower yellow stripe ascending 

 to middle ocellus; mouth-parts and hinder part of cheeks 

 honey-colour ; clypeus with two broad dark brown bars, the 

 margins of which are suffused; other parts of clypeus 

 reddish, and adjacent sides of face whitish; antennas dark 

 brownish or reddish beneath ; mesothorax strongly and 

 closely punctured, black, with four longitudinal yellow bars, 

 the outer one marginal, none quite reaching the anterior 

 margin ; scutellum with a broad black band, and on each side 

 (largely axillar) a transverse black mark; postscutellum all 

 yellow; area of metathorax large, strongly but finely and 

 regularly longitudinally grooved or fluted, bounded on each 

 side by a black punctured band. Legs rufo-testaceous ; 

 tegulre pale testaceous. Wings large, minutely hairy, very 

 pale yellowish, dusky at apex ; stigma and nervures pale 

 ferruginous, darker towards the base; second s.m. receiving 

 both recurrent nervures ; first abdominal segment with a 

 transverse dark band, the middle third of which is wanting; 

 hind spur with about four strong teeth. 



<$ . — Similar, but the face narrower, and the very long and 

 narrow clypeus without dark bands ; apex of abdomen trun- 

 cate, more or less emarginate in the middle. 



Maxillary comb very well developed, with large teeth, the 

 lowermost (most basad) of which are longest (the end one at 

 least 190 p) and curved; blade of maxilla short (about 545 //, 

 beyond the origin of palpus), broad, very obtuse, with many 



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