THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLVIL] DECEMBEE. 1914. [No. 619 



SOME TASMANIAN BEES. 

 By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



I GIVE a list of the bees recently collected in Tasmania by 

 Mr. F. M. Littler, and kindly forwarded to me by Mr. Walter W. 

 Froggatt. Other specimens, with the same numbers, have been 

 retained in Australia. 



Paracolletes marginatus. Smith, 245 c (2331) and 244 c (2332). 

 The scape is black in both sexes ; in males from Victoria it is 

 red. Bridport, Oct. 26th-30th, 1913. 



Paracolletes launcestonensis, n. sp. 

 236 c. Launceston, Jan. 25th, 1914. 

 5 . Length about 8 mm. ; head, thorax and legs black, the small 

 joints of tarsi reddish ; abdomen very dark greenish, the hind margins 

 of first two segments appearing narrowly ferruginous, but at least at 

 sides of first segment the colour is actually on extreme base of 

 the one following ; teguloe and extreme base of anterior wings 

 bright apricot colour ; wings fuliginous, darkest in the costo-apical 

 region ; stigma large, black, nervures dark fuscous ; flagellum wholly 

 dark. Pubescence scanty ; sides of face and cheeks with thin white 

 hair ; hair of vertex erect, pale, slightly brownish ; clypeus shining, 

 sparsely punctured ; supraclypeal area duller, elevated, not punctured ; 

 front with a dull sericeous surface; anterior corners of mesothorax 

 with a little pale ochreous hair (slight approach to condition of 

 Immerosus and irroratus) ; tubercles densely fringed with white hair; 

 sides of metathorax with long white hair ; mesothorax duhish, with 

 sparse feeble punctures ; postscutellum dull and rough, contrasting 

 with the shining scutellum ; area of metathorax large, bounded by 

 an impressed line which is gently curved outward and is not beaded ; 

 scopa of hind tibiae white, dark fuscous above basally ; b. n. meeting 

 t. m. ; first r. n. joining second s. m. a little beyond middle, second 

 joining third s. m. at apical corner ; hair at apex of abdomen fuscous, 

 not very abundant ; under side of abdomen with curled white hairs. 

 By the dark wings, this resembles P. obscitripennis, Ckll., but is 

 easily separated by the tegulas, metathorax, &c. 



Callomelitta littleri, n. sp. 

 242 c (2324). Launceston, Jan. 25th, 1914. 

 5 . Length about 9 mm. ; anterior wing 7'5. Similar to C.picta, 

 Sm., but smaller ; mesothorax, tubercles and axillae terracotta red, 



ENTOM. DECEMBER, 1914. 2 C 



