Records of Bees. All 



scutellum, postscutellura, and basal area of metathorax 

 ferrupnous; mesothorax dullish, silky, with minute punctures, 

 like the vertex ; median and pai'apsidal incised lines distinct ; 

 legs red ; hind spur of hind tibia strongly serrate (it is serrate 

 also in S. Icevigatum) ; tegulae shining yellowish ferruginous. 

 Wings yellowish, stigma and nervures ferruginous ; venation 

 nearly as in >S^. Icevigatum, except that the first r. n. meets 

 the first t.-c, and the upper outer angle of the second s.m. 

 is an acute angle (an obtuse one in Icevigatum) ; the second 

 r. n. bends inwards, and, as in Icevigatum, joins the second 

 s.m. some distance from its end. Abdomen dull, with a sort 

 of silky surface ; first segment light ferruginous ; second to 

 fourth very dark brown, nearly black, with the hind margin 

 broadly ferruginous, the junction of the two colours on the 

 second and third wavy, with a double curve ; fifth segment 

 ferruginous, black at extreme base ; apical segment fei-ru- 

 ginous, pointed, with a very narrow pygidial plate ; venter 

 ferruginous, varied with dark brown. 



Rab. Queensland [Gilbert Turner, Ridg. 11. 93, 683), and 

 another marked "Australia'' (F. Smith's collection, 79. 22). 



This insect is so unlike S. lavigatum in colour and 

 sculpture, that I thought at first it must represent a distinct 

 genus ; but the other characters are all essentially those of 

 Stilpnosoina. 



Erratum (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., June 1905, p. 528).— For 

 Melissodes parosetce read Melissodes jmrosi'Ice. 



University of Coloi-ado, 

 Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 

 July 9, 1905. 



LIV. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — VI. 

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



Paracolletes moretonianus, sp. n. 



^ . — Length about 11 mm. 



Black, with red legs and pale yellow and golden pubescence. 

 The general appearance of the insect closely simulates 

 Nomia semiaurea, CklL, but it is easily known from that 

 species by the dull, very minutely and densely punctured 

 first abdominal segment, the second and following segments 



