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A SMALL COLLECTION OF BEES FROM TASMANIA. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



f Communicated by W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.) 



Comparatively little is known of the bees of Tasmania, so it 

 may be worth while to report on a small collection sent by Mr. 

 W. W. Froggatt, obtained by the well-known entomologist, Mr. 

 Arthur M. Lea. The specimens bear two sets of numbers, one 

 by Mr. Froggatt, the other by Mr. Lea. I have cited both, 

 placing the Froggatt number first in each case. 



{I. )Callomelitta picta ^rnith. Magnet(140, 6456). 



(2.)Par.\sphecodes excultus, n.sp. Magnet(134, 6459). 

 $. Length about 9 mm.; head, thorax and legs black; abdomen 

 with the second and third segments, and apical part of first very 

 broadly, bright red, the red also extending along the sides of first 

 segment; rest of abdomen black, the fourth segment with a very 

 faint, hardly noticeable, reddish band across the middle, and the 

 broad hind margin slightly brownish; on the ventral side the 

 fourth segment is red at sides except apically; head and thorax 

 with rather long pale hair; some fuscous hair about the ocelli, 

 and fuscous hairs intermixed on face; hair of legs moderately 

 abundant, orange-tinted on inner side of tarsi, purplish-fuscous 

 on outer side of basitarsi; hind femora with a large curled creamy- 

 white floccus; hind tibiae with shining white hair on inner side, 

 contrasting with the purplish-fuscous behind; flagelium obscurely 

 ferruginous beneath, longitudinally depressed or furrowed; rest 

 of head, and thorax, dullish, minutely rugose; mesothorax rather 

 coarsely rugose-punctate; area of metathorax distinctly defined 

 behind, covered with dense irregular longitudinal rugae, the 

 wrinkles variously incomplete or anastomosing; tegulas rufous 

 with a fuscous spot; wings reddish-hyaline, first recurrent nervure 

 meeting second trans verso-cubital; outer nervures not weakened; 



