Records of Bees, 45 
roughened (microscopically cancellate) surface; maxillary 
palpi long, with six subequal joints; flagellum very long 
and slender; stigma long and narrow, obtuse at apex. 
Wings hairy ; marginal cell ending rather obtusely, a little 
away from costa, with a very minute appendiculation ; costa 
above marginal cell with a conspicuous fringe of dusky hair ; 
second s.m. very long, receiving first r. n. far from base 
(distance a little greater than length of first t.-c.); second 
r.n. meeting second (morphologically third) t.-c.; b. n. 
arched, falling just short of t.m., which is not very oblique. 
Anterior tarsi short, the basal joint with long hair ; middle 
femora produced beneath, subtriangular, the lower anterior 
face with a large basin-like depression ; middle tarsi short, 
the basitarsus very broad, parallel-sided, truncate at end, 
longer than the other joints together; hind tibie not far 
from twice as long, and much more than twice as bulky as 
anterior or middle ones, with very long hair in front and 
- behind; hind basitarsi broad at extreme base, with a spine, 
the outer side of which bears long hair, but on the posterior 
side, away from the spine, prolonged into a long eurved 
extremely slender structure, ending in a flattened lamina, 
and longer than the other four joints together; pulvilli 
large ; claws bifid at end. Abdomen with hind margin of 
fifth ventral segment elevated and greatly thickened in 
middle ; sixth ventral segment with a great thickened 
elevation, which has a sloping smooth triangular anterior 
face, 
Notocolleies heterodoxus, sp. D. 
3 .—Nearly 11 mm. long. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen with long erect very pale 
ochreous-tinted hair, not forming bands on abdomen ; 
head and thorax black, abdomen dark dull blue-green ; 
malar space obsolete; mandibles bidentate, black ; face 
densely covered with appressed hair, which shines like a 
plate of polished silver in certain lights; scape black, 
flagellum obscure reddish; front flattened, entirely dull; 
mesothorax entirely dull, impunctate ; scutellum shining, 
its hair strongly brownish; areaof metathorax dull, without 
plicee, but its margin plicatulate; legs black, the anterior 
and middle tibiz mainly red in front, and the tarsi partly 
ferruginous; tegule black, rather small. Wings reddened, 
stigma dark reddish, nervures fuscous. Abdomen rather 
elongate. 
Hab. “ Gawter. D. 8S. Austr.” [Gawler Range ?] (British 
Museum, from F. Smith’s collection). 
An extraordinary bee, related to the species of Gonzocolletes. 
