Records of Bees. 373 



donor and the date of the donation, confusing information of 

 no scientific value. I also learn from Mr. Froggatt that 

 there may be doubt about some of the localities of the bees 

 he received from Melbourne, many of which 1 have recorded, 

 crediting their capture to INI r. French. Mr. Froggatt ascer- 

 tained that the bees were bought from a collector "who 

 named them where he pinned them, so the localities, unless 

 verified, are not reliable." In future, when I have occasion 

 to refer to bees of this lot, I shall cite the data on the labels, 

 but within quotation marks. 



Crocisa ivaroonensis, Cockcrell. 

 Waroona, W.A. (G. F. Berthoud). 

 Marked nearly as in lamprosoma, but all the markings 



white ; anterior part of mesothorax with long white hair; 

 wings with a little more than the basal half clear hyaline, 

 the apical half fuscous, with the usual spots. 



Parasphecodes excultus, Cockerell. 



Magnet, Tasmania (Lea). 



Female not unlike P. specidiferus, Ckll., but teguke rufous ; 

 posterior disc of mesothorax shining, with well-separated 

 punctures ; area of metathorax much shorter ; abdomen 

 with only segments 2 and 3 and apical half of first red. 



Paracolletes leai, Cockerell. 



Ulverstone, Tasmania (Lea). 



Female about 11^ mm. long, rather slender ; shining 

 black ; clypeus strongly punctured and with a median ridge ; 

 mesothorax sparsely punctured ; hind tibial scopa large, 

 creamy white, stained with fuscous behind. 



Full descriptions of the above three species will be found 

 in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales. 



Anthoglossa hackeri, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 14 mm. 



ltobust ; black, the hind margins of abdominal segments 

 with the tegument broadly shining orange-golden ; wings 

 strongly dusky ; antennae ami legs black. Head very broad ; 

 clypeus shining, with strong scattered punctures; hair of 

 head and thorax white on sides ami below, white also on 

 face and occiput, but dark sooty on vertex and dorsum of 

 thorax, also just below wings, and on upper part of sides of 

 metathorax; mesothorax and seutellum dull: b. n. falling 



