Records of Bees, 41 



front closely punctured ; flagellum wQvy short, dull reddish 

 beneath except at base; mesothorax and scutelluin closely 

 and finely punctured, but shining between the punctures ; 

 scntelluni Hailened in middle; postscutelluni villi a well- 

 developed median tubercle, more or less hidden by liair ; 

 tcgulie black, with very Hue punctures. \N ings strongly 

 dusky, with piceous nervnres and small stigma ; b. n. meeting 

 t.-m.; second s.m. small, receiving tirst r. n. about middle; 

 second r. n. entering thiid s.m. some distance from end. 

 Legs black, with white hair, more or less fulvous-tinted on 

 inner side of tarsi ; hind tibial scopa long and black beliind, 

 otherwise clear white ; hmd spur pectinate with many fine 

 teeth. Abdomen very finely punctured, with thin white hair, 

 thin and reddish on apical part of fourth segment, dense and 

 bright red beyond. 



Hub. Yallingup, near Cape Xaturaliste, S.W. Australia, 

 Sept. 14-Oct. 3i, 1913 (/e. E. Turner). 2 ? . i3riii>h 

 Museum. 



Mr. Meade- ^Valdo notes: "Nearly allied to P. turntri 

 and P. elegans, but distiuct.^^ It is readily distinguished 

 from these by the black abdomen. 



Paracolletes dentiger, Cockerell. 



Described in 1910 from a single female, precise locality 

 unknown. At Yallingup, near Cape Xaturaliste, Sept. IJ- 

 Oct, 31, 1913, Mr. K. E. Turner collected both sexes. To 

 the description of the female should be added — hind tibiae 

 with black hair posteriorly. The male closely resembles the 

 female ; the hind legs are long and slender, with the tibial 

 hair all white; the scape is strongly punctured, and the 

 flagellum is short, like that of a female. 



In the descriptions of Paracollttts which follow, the 

 published tables are referred to by numbers, as follows : — 

 Tab. 1 = Tians. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxxi. (1905) pp. 3J4-3J8. 

 Tab. 2= Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan. 190G, pp. 28-29. 

 Tab. 3 -■= Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxxvi. (1910) pp. 200-'>!07. 



ParacoUetes latifrons, sp. u. 



? . — Length about 11^ ram. 



Black, robust, very broad, with rather thin dull white hair ; 

 vertex with long black hair, posterior middle of mesothorax, 

 and disc of scutellum, with short black hair ; face very broad, 

 eyes slightly converging above, hair of face entirely white; 

 mandibles rufous except at base and apex; flagellum very 

 obscurely reddish beneath ; cheeks narrow ; mesothorax and 

 scutellum with a dullish, sericeous surface; area of meta- 



