Records of Bees. o-il 



Hab. Tambourine Mountain, Anstralia, Oct. 27, 1912 

 {H. Hacker ; Queensland Museum, 82). 



In the patch of orange tunientiun on the postscutelluiu 

 this agrees with H. peraustra/is, Ckll., hut that species has 

 the legs mainly red and the nietathoracic area quite different. 

 Except for the orange tomentnm, there is a very close super- 

 ficial resemblance to //. duvidis, Ckll., but the tnetathorax is 

 entirely different. 



Chelustomoides pratti, sp. n. 



(J.— Length 10-1 U rara. 



Black, with the small joints of tarsi clear ferruginous; 

 form elongate, parallel-sided, narrow; pubescence in general 

 white, but fuscous on vertex, and more or less so on discs 

 of mesothorax and scutelluin, short and black on the discs of 

 the fourth and fifth abdominal segments, very pale yellowisii 

 on inner side of tarsi. Head rather large, round seen from 

 in front ; face densely covered with white hair, sparsely 

 mixed with black on clypeus ; cheeks with long white hair 

 beneath ; mandibles black, tridentate, without any large 

 basal tooth below ; labrum very broad and relatively short, 

 sparsely punctured ; vertex and front shining, but well 

 punctured ; antennae long, the flagellum very faintly reddish 

 beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum shining but strongly 

 punctured ; two short white hair-bands on mesothorax ante- 

 riorly, pointing toward middle ; white hair in scutello- 

 mesothoracic suture, and a tuft of white hair behind each 

 tegula ; postscutellum shining, with sparse minute punctures ; 

 area of metathorax dull and granular ; tegnlai dark brown, 

 finely punctured. Wings clear hyaline, nervures piceous. 

 Anterior coxse and tarsi simple. Abdomen shining, but 

 strongly punctured, the hind margins of the segments nar- 

 rowly testaceous ; conspicuous white hair-bands on apical 

 margins of first three segments at sides, and rather weakly 

 (especially so on third) continued across the middle ; basal 

 bair-bands are also developed, strong and continuous on 

 segments 4-6 ; keel of sixth segment with two strong, trian- 

 gular, sharp, widely separated teeth ; apical margin (beneath) 

 undulate, shining, without distinct lobes or teeth ; fourth 

 ventral segment (almost hidden by third) with alight reddish 

 margin. 



Hab. San Diego, Texas (^Jones and Pratt). Thirty-eight 

 specimens were collected, March 2o, 1908. 



Related to C. ri/Jimanus (Rob ), from which it is known by 

 the darker legs and clear wings. There is a superficial 



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