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THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL IIISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SKIIIES.] 

 No. 90. JUNE 1915. 



XLVII. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXVIf. 

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



Paracolletes versicolor (Smith, 1853). 



Mt. Wellington, Tasmania, 1300-2300 ft., Jan. 15-Fcb. 0, 

 1913, 1 ? , 2 (^ {R. E. Turner). The female was described 

 by Smith ; the male is P. spatulatus, Ckll., 1905. In the 

 same locality, at about the same time, Mr. Turner took a 

 male P. providellus bacchalis, Ckll., var. a. Both species 

 Mere described from the maiuiaud of Australia- 



Paracolletes yachyodontus, sp. u. 



c? . — Length 8-9 mm. 



Black, with the mandibles red (except at extreme base), 

 and the a])doraen with approximately the lateral thirds of 

 first three segments, as well as apical bands on the first 

 four, deep chestnut-red ; hair of head and thorax long and 

 (lull white, abundant on face, but vertex, mcsothorax (except 

 anteriorly), and most of scuteilum with dark fuscous hair ; 

 a little fuscous hair i)cl(nv tcguhe ; clypeus with sparse 

 strong punctures ; supraclypcal area |)romineut, smooth, and 

 shining ; antennae short and thick, like those of a female, 

 the fiagellum red beneath ; vertex strongly ])unctun'd ; 

 mcsothorax finely and densely puiuturcd, but glistcnin"- 

 postscutcllum with a tiiick short median tootli ; tcguhc 

 piceous, punctured. Wings with the apical margin broadly 

 dusky, stigma and nervurcs piceous ; second s.m. small', 

 Ann. ik Maj. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xv. 3G 



