Records of Dees. 49 



verscly striated baud, limited l)y a transverse ridge, below 

 which the (vertical) surface is shiiiin<; except at sides, but in 

 the middle, at the top of the vortical face, is a large deep tri- 

 angular pit; teguUe piceous. Wings sliglitly dusky, nervures 

 aud tlie lanceolate stigma rufo-fuscous ; b. u meeting t,-m. ; 

 second s.ni. broad, receiving lirst r. n. at or before middle ; 

 third s.m. receiving second r. n. not very far from end. Legs 

 with glistening white hair, pale reddish on inner side of 

 tarsi. Abdomen shining, the weak punctures not dense ; 

 hind margins of second and following segments verv narrowlv 

 reddisli : no hair-bauds ; hair at apex fuscous ; venter with 

 pure white hair. 



Hub. Yallingup, S.W. Australia, Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 1913, 

 2 S {[*' E. Tunie)'). British Museum. 



Related to P. chah/beatus and P. obscurus, but differing 

 in various details. The metathorax is peculiar. 



VI 1. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXII. 

 V>y T. D. A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado. 



Parasphecodes excultus, Cockerel]. 



Mt. Wellington, S. Tasmania, Jan. 15-Feb. G, 1913 {E. E. 

 Turner). Biit. Museum. 



Parasphecodes welUngtoni, sp. n. 



? .—Length 8^-10^ mm. 



Robust ; head and thorax black ; abdomen bright chestnut- 

 red, first segment black or blackish at base, the limits of tlie 

 dark patch not sharply defined, apical segments variably- 

 suffused with dusky ; clypeus shining, more or less flattened 

 or depressed in middle, very sparsely punctured ; face 

 glistening, but not smooth ; front dull, more or less glistening 

 at sides; the very scanty pale hair of face and cheeks more 

 or less brownish ; antennai black, flagellum obscurely brown 

 beneath ; vertex, mesothorax, and scutellum with thin dark 

 reddish-fuscous hair ; fringe of tubercles pale ochreous ; 

 mesothorax strongly grooved in middle, dull in front, shining 

 on disc, with small punctures of two different sizes ; scutellum 

 shining, with scattered minute punctures ; postscutellum 

 entirely dull, strongly contrasting with scutellum ; area of 

 Ajin. c& 2Iag. X. Hist. Ser. 8. ]'oL xiv. -i 



