NEW AUSTRALIAN BEES. 
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NEW AUSTRALIAN BEES. 
By T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Parasphecodes zamelanus sp. n. 
Male. Length about 11 nun., anterior wing 8-3: entirely black , including 
antennae and legs, except for the usual yellow clypeus, with the sides above 
black, the black areas uniting above, the upward extension of yellow ending in 
a sharp point ; body throughout with thin but quite long and conspicuous dull 
white hair, stained with blackish on head and thorax above ; clypeus 
prominent, with a median groove; sides of face with conspicuous white hair; 
front dull, but a shining crescent in front of middle ocellus ; mesothorax dull, 
somewhat shining in middle, very finely punctured ; scutellum bigibbous, the 
elevations distinctly shining ; area of metathorax moderately shining with well- 
defined straight plicae : tegulae black with an obscure reddish spot ; wings 
greyish hyaline, the outer margin darker ; nervines dark fuscous ; stigma light 
brown with dark border ; second cubital cell very broad, receiving first 
recurrent nervure near end ; legs with white hair ; spurs pale ; abdomen 
shining, finely punctured, no depression between first and second tergites ; 
second sternite with a median elevation, not amounting to a spine. 
Two from Dunalley, Tasmania, Dec. 26, 1917 (G. H. Hardy) ; Queensland 
Museum. Near to P. cervicalis Ckll., but larger and with different venation. 
Parasphecodes rufocollaris sp. n. 
Female. Length about 7-5 mm., anterior wing 6-3 ; head and thorax 
black, with very little hair ; prothorax, tubercles, and tegulse bright ferruginous ; 
surface of body dullish, with a sericeous lustre ; mandibles dull red with black 
base ; antennae black ; area of raeta thorax very large and long, without evident 
sculpture, the median triangular area completely dull, the broad marginal area 
somewhat shining ; under the microscope the area shows an excessively minute 
reticulation ; sides of metathorax with fine white tomentum, as if mildewed ; 
wings long, reddish, stigma (very large) and nervureS dark rufo-fuscous ; second 
cubital cell higher than broad ; first recurrent nervure meeting intercubitus ; 
legs clear bright ferruginous, the tarsi with pale golden hair : abdomen rather 
narrow, cuneate basally, dark brownish red, stained with blackish, the third 
tergilo very dark, and beyond that practically black ; no hair bands or patches ; 
first two tergites with a little elevation on each side ; third sternite with pale 
hair, but on the next two it is black. 
National Park, Queensland, Dec. 1921 (H. Hacker ) ; Queensland Museum. 
Allied to P. bribiensis Ckll., but easily known by the peculiar colouration. Mr. 
Hacker had recognised it as a new species. 
