Records of Bees. 301 



Abdomen small, fusiform, very shiny, bright ferruginous, the 

 apical third strongly iuf uscated ; apex broadly rounded ; no 

 hair-bands ; suture between first and second segments a 

 little depressed. 



Hab. Queensland: no. 94.61; « Ridg. 11.91 ; 710." 

 Close to H. sjiliecodoides, Smith, but the colour of the head 

 and legs is different, and I do not feel justified in treating it 

 as the male of that insect, hitherto known only in the female. 



Halictus vitrijiennis, Smith. 



A ? from Queensland (Ridg. 11.93 ; 711) agrees with 

 Smithes too brief description and my notes on the type ; but 

 there is just a possibility that actual comparison would reveal 

 differences. 



XXXIII. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — III. 

 By T. D. A. CocKERELL^ University of Colorado. 



Phenacolletes, gen. nov. 



Tongue and paraglossse as in Colletes; labial palpi small, 

 4-jointed, the joints subequal, but the two middle ones 

 the shortest ; distance between paraglossse and labial palpi 

 greater than length of former; blade of maxilla about 2i 

 times as long as wide, rounded at end ; maxillary palpi very 

 small, not half the length of maxilla- blade, -the six joints 

 stout, the first not easily seen, the second and third cylin- 

 drical, the fourth and fifth short, the sixth narrow and 

 pointed ; pubescence short, very finely plumose ; abdomen 

 free from hair, except a very fine pruinosity, and shaped like 

 that of a Tachijtes or Bembecid ; stigma small and narrow 

 (about as in Leioproctus as figured by Smith) ; marginal 

 cell lanceolate, tapering apically ; three submarginal cells — 

 the first, on cubital nervure, at least as long as the other two 

 together ; the second large, almost square, receiving the first 

 recurrent nervure at the end of its first third ; the third 

 about twice as long as the second below, but only as long 

 above, its outer margin regularly curved ; the second 

 recurrent nervure enters it a little before the beginning of 

 its last fourth, and is practically straight, with only a slight 

 irregular curvature ; basal nervure falling a very little l)asad 

 of transverso-medial. 



