6 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



menis without hair-bands ; apical plate broadly rounded ; 

 venter with long white hair. 



Hab. Yallingup, near Cape Naturaliste, S.W. Australia^ 

 Sept. 11-Oct. 31, 1913 (R. E. Turner). British Museum. 



Allied to P. himaculatus, Sm., differing by the dark wings, 

 details of venation, &c. There is a strong superficial 

 resemblance to F. fimhriatinus, Ckll., but that species differs 

 greatly in the structure and sculpture of the abdomen. The 

 female of P. erythrurus is the type. 



All the bees of Turner's recent collections which I have 

 received from the British INIuseum have been ascertained by 

 Mr. Meade- Waldo to be distinct from all the species in the 

 Museum, so that after I have compared them with my own 

 materials they have been compaied with most of the types 

 of Australian bees. 



ParacoUetes nigrocinctus , sp. n. 



(?. — Length 11-12 mm. 



Head and thorax black ; abdomen dull red, segments 1 

 to 5 having narrow subapical black bands, the margin beyond 

 subhyalinCj and on segments 2 to 5 having a thin fringe of 

 short silvery-white hairs; middle of first segment wholly 

 black ; venter of abdomen dark, with light reddish (tegu- 

 mentary) bands ; clypeus, except the broad dark upper and 

 lateral margins, reddish-cream colour, this light area some- 

 times strongly trilobed ; labrum pale, not swollen ; man- 

 dibles red ; scape short, black ; fiagellum long, obscure 

 reddish beneath ; face, front, and cheeks with long pale 

 hair, distinctly fulvous-tinted over clypeus ; occiput with 

 long fuscous hair; mesothorax and scutellum somewhat 

 shining, with rather sparse shallow punctures; areaof meta- 

 thorax shining but not polished, not transversely keeled ; 

 discs of mesothorax and scutellum with abundant long dark 

 fuscous hair, but pale greyish hair on thorax anteriorly, 

 between mesothorax and scutellum, and on metathorax ; a 

 large patch of fuscous hair just below teguUe ; tegula3 dark 

 rufous. Wings dusky greyish, nervures and the small stigma 

 fuscous; b. u. falling a little short of t.-m. ; second s.m. 

 small, square, receiving first r. n. about middle ; third s.m. 

 long, receiving second r. n. some distance before end. Knees, 

 tibise, and tarsi red, the tibiae broadly suffused with black. 

 Abdomen feebh^ punctured on a dull ground; first segment 

 with much white hair ; apical plate rather small; sixth 

 ventral segment with a median erect tuft of pale hair. 



Hab. Yallingnp, near Cape Naturalists^ S.W. Australia, 



