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THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. G3. MARCH 1913. 



XXVIT. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — L. 

 By T. D, A. CocRKRKLL, University of Colorado. 



Trichocolletes venustus (Smith). 



Three males before me witli the following data : Toohey'g 

 Hill, Brisbane, Sept. 4, 1911 [Hacker; Queensl. Mus. 10) ; 

 Stradbroke Island, Aug. 28, 1891 [J. H. Boreham ; Froggatt 

 coll. 202) ; Sydney, N.S.W. {Froggatt, 150). 



The hitherto unknown female is represented by a speci- 

 men from Brisbane [Hacker ; Q,ueensl. Mus. 11), collected 

 Sept. 12, 1911. It is less elongated than the male, with the 

 liiiht abdominal bands less distinct. The hair at end of 

 abdomen is sooty, but light on middle of fifth segment. 

 INIandibles red, except apically ; face broad; clypeus shining, 

 with strong scattered punctures ; hair of face white, but 

 goklcn on lower margin of clypeus and lower side of 

 mandibles ; the pale fulvous hair of vertex, mesothorax, and 

 scutellum tipped with fuscous ; scape black, red at base ; 

 flagellum obscure reddish beneath, but black basally and 

 bright ferruginous apically ; stigma o])solete ; knees and 

 tarsi ferruginous, so also tibiae to a considerable extent, but 

 middle and anterior tibise suffused or clouded with blnck 

 bchiufl, and the middle ones largely so in front and on outer 

 side ; hind tibiae red, with a plumose pale yellowish scopa, 

 which is fuscous only at extreme base ; hind spur pectinate 

 with numerous very close-set long teeth, the effect rather 

 like one side of a Cijcns leaf. 



Ann. ib Mag. X, Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xi. 19 



