308 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Exoneura hamulata, CklL, var. a. 

 234 c. Launceston, Jan. 25tb, 1914. 



$ . With the broad face of E. hamulata ; clypeal mark evanescent, 

 all but the upper part dark reddish ; wings strongly reddened, stigma 

 clear amber ; hair on outer side of hind tibiae ferruginous. If the 

 characters are constant, this will deserve a subspecific name. A 

 specimen from Victoria has equally red wings. 



I gave a list of Tasmanian bees in Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales, xsxvii., p. 599. Since that time the list has been 

 considerably increased, so that with the present contribution it 

 includes Prosopis, seven species ; Bingliamiclla, one ; Earyglossa, 

 three ; Paracolletes, ten ; Callomelitta, two ; Halictus, sixteen ; 

 Parasphecodes, thirteen ; Nomia, one ; Megachile, three ; Exo- 

 neura, three. This is in striking contrast to the very poor bee- 

 fauna of New Zealand ; but while it seems certain that New 

 Zealand cannot produce nearly as many bees as Tasmania, it 

 remains probable that careful collecting would considerably 

 augment the present short list. The large proportion of new 

 forms collected by Mr. Littler shows that the Tasmanian bee- 

 fauna is still quite insufficiently known. 



THREE WEEKS IN DAUPHINY. 



By H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 



(Plate VII.) 



(Concluded from p. 286.) 



(ii.) Le Lauteret. 



For three whole days, from July 21st to the 23rd, it continued 

 to rain or snow upon the Col de Lauteret (6950 ft.), with scarcely 

 an hour's intermission, by which time the lower valley of Oisans 

 was under water, and half the country round Grenoble as well. 

 The weather changed suddenly on the 24th, with a rude north 

 wind, and though the skies above were clear, and the sun shone 

 brightly, it was bitterly cold. Not until then was I able to 

 collect, choosing the road up to the Col de Galibier as less exposed 

 to the weather. The flowers, which at all events had suffered 

 little from the severe drenching, were even more magnificent 

 than at La Grave ; and, at what seems a surprisingly late date 

 for them, the white narcissus, iV. ^we^icns var. radijiorus, was still 

 in its first pride, together with the large white Anemone, Anemone 

 alpina, and the handsome lofty Orohiis lateus, which when going 

 out of flower becomes deep orange. A. simplonia was now almost 

 common. In the grass and herbage Erehia pharte again turned up 

 in swarms, with tiny E. ceto, rare E. epiphron var. cassiope, and 



