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Australian Bees 
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AUSTRALIAN BEES IN THE MUSEUM OF 
COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
By T. D. A. Cockerell 
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 
Having undertaken to prepare a manual of Australian 
bees for the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 
I have been obliged to examine the undetermined material 
existing in various museums, in America and Australia. 
This task proves heavier than was anticipated, owing to 
the large number of specimens and species submitted. The 
Australian bee-fauna is extremely rich, as might be ex- 
pected from the nature of the flora, and when I have done 
the best I can, there will still remain hundreds of species 
to be discovered and described. 
Apis mellifera ligustica Spinola 
Babinda, April 8; Halifax, June 1. Collected by F. X. 
Williams. Not native in Australia. In the Australasian 
Beekeeper, XXVII, Oct. 15, 1925, p. 68, Mr. T. Raymend 
published a supposed native Australian species, A. senig- 
maticus (on p. 69 called A. trigona) , said to occur in 
Victoria and S. Australia. Apparently no specimens are 
extant, and nothing is known except the comb. 
Lestis bombylans (Fabr.) 
2 $, Cooktown, Queensland ( E . A. C. Olive). 
Mesotrichia bryorum (Fabr.) 
2 $, Halifax, July 11 (Williams). 
Crocisa lamprosoma Boisduval 
Halifax, June (Williams) . 
