Records of Bees. 3 1 5 



Paracolic fes fimbriatinus, Cockercll. 



Two males from Victoria Museum ; New South Wales 

 (123) and no locality (112). 



Paracolletes megadontus, sp. n. 



? . — Length 10 mm. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen steel-blue, with greenish tints, 

 strongly punctured ; postscutellum with a very prominent 

 tooth ; antennas dark, fiagellum reddish at end ; pubescence 

 black and white ; caudal fimbria dense and black, but a 

 tuft of white hair on each side of abdomen subapically. 

 Wings dusky hyaline ; sides of front with very strongly 

 marked black foveal depressions, which at the upper end 

 almost touch lateral ocelli. 



Very near to P. dentiger, Ckll., differing as follows : — 

 Smaller ; the thin hair of clypeus white ; area of metathorax 

 smooth and shining, without transverse strias ; second s.m. 

 receiving first r. n. before the middle, but not near base ; 

 third s.m. receiving second r. n. much nearer apex ; hind 

 legs not metallic ; hair on outer side of tarsi and of middle 

 tibiae black, also black on inner side of tarsi ; hind tibial 

 scopa bicoloured, white and black; abdomen shining and 

 finely punctured. 



Also very close to P. caruleotinctus, Ckll., which is known 

 only in the male ; but from the entirely different colour of 

 hair of head and thorax and the prominent postscutellar 

 spine (male ccerulcotinctus has a slight prominence, not 

 amounting to a tooth or spine), as well as the darker vena- 

 tion, it can hardly be the opposite sex of that species. 



Hab. Calowadra, Queensland, Oct. 30, 1912 (H. Hacker ; 

 Queensl. Mus. 81). 



Andrena (Trachandrcna) prunicola, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 10 mm. 



Black, with greyish-white pubescence ; hind tibiae and 

 tarsi clear ferruginous ; middle tarsi dark reddish ; facial 

 quadrangle a little broader than long ; process of labrum 

 broad, truncate; clypeus shining, strongly and closely 

 punctured, without a smooth line ; facial foveas brownish 

 white, rather narrow, tapering below to a point about level 

 with middle of supraclypcal area, not widely separated from 

 eye; supraclypeal area densely punctured, the punctures 

 much smaller than those of clypeus ; flagellum obscurely 

 reddish beneath toward end; third anteunal joint a little 



