Becords of Bees. ,T70 



scattered punctures, seutellum bip;ibbous ; hair of meso- 

 thora.v and scntelhim warm fuscous, but of postscutellum, 

 metathorax, and pleura wliite ; area of metathorax very 

 laro^e, smooth and brilliantly shinino^ ; tej^uUe ferruginous. 

 ^^'iIlJJS faintly dusky, nervures ruf'o-fuscous ; stigma almost 

 o})solete ; b. n. falling a very little short of t.-m. Legs more 

 or less reddish, anterior tibiic clear ferruginous in front. 



Hub. ^Mackay, Queensland, Sept. 1898, at flowers of 

 Leptospennum [Turner, 308). British Museum. 



Exceedingly close to the male of P. crassipes, but smaller, 

 with light hair on posterior edge of hind tibire (fuscous 

 in crassipes); it appears to be a northern subspecies of 

 P. crassipes. 



ParncoUetes rehellis, sp, n. 



S . — Length 13 mm. or rather over. 



Another species closely resembling P. crassipes, but 

 certainly distinct, differing as follows : — The large triangular 

 area of metathorax strongly longitudinally sulcate in the 

 middle and finely transversely striate ; the abundaut hair of 

 mesothorax and seutellum light ferruginous, not at all 

 fuscous ; mandibles red ; fourth antennal joint longer ; 

 nervures ferruginous ; sides of second abdominal segment 

 red basally. The flagellura is very long, ferruginous beneath. 

 The genitalia resemble those of various Colletes, except that 

 the very broad stipites are not hairy at the end. 



Hah. Melbourne, Victoria, Aug. 1900 (C. French). Turner 

 collection, British ]\ruseum. 



In my first arrangement of the specimens I had confused 

 P. rebellis with P. leptosjjermi, but it is very different in the 

 structure of the metathoracic enclosure. 



Paracolletes platycephalus, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 10 ram. 



Black, with the abdomen bright ferruginous red, the first 

 segment suffusedly blackish on its anterior face, the second 

 with a conspicuous black spot on each side ; head very 

 broad, with white hair, thin on sides of face, abundant on 

 cheeks beneath ; clypeus shining, sparsely but strongly 

 punctured, flattened in middle; supraclypeal area elevated, 

 with a flattened smooth triangular face; mandibles dark, 

 bidentate ; antennse black, or flagelkim a little reddish 

 apically ; flagellum short and thick ; mesothorax microscopi- 

 cally tessellatc, shining or dullish, rather closelv punctured 



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