AUSTBALIAN BEES IN THE QUEENSLAND AIUSEUM.—COCKEHELL. 257 AUSTRALIAN BEES IN THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. By T. D. a. Cockerell, University of Colorado. PARASPHECODES Smith. This genus, which is very closely allied to Halictus, consists of a large number of species, nearly all apparently with very restricted distribution. They may be oligotropic on particular flowers, but at present we know hardly anything of their habits. Smith described a number of species, giving them names which are anagrams of Halictus. I have examined the types of all of these, but to my surprise I fail to find them in the various Austrahan collections coming to hand in recent years. The genus is especially south-eastern, with no less than twenty-one species described from Tasmania, and nineteen from Victoria, one of the latter extending to Tasmania. Two of the Victoria species go north to Queensland, which has eight species and a subspecies of a Victoria one not known elsewhere. From South Australia five species have been described, but from West Austraha only two, and N.W. Australia one. Two are only known from N.S. Wales. The series now before me from the Queensland Museum (to which the types will be returned) adds a number of species, separable from one another as follows : — black Clypeus partly yellow : males Clypeus all black ; females Abdomen entirely black ; mesothorax glaucous Abdomen partly or wholly red Abdomen wholly chestnut -red ; tubercles entirely Abdomen partly black . . Tegulse light ferruginous Tegulse black Abdomen entirely black Abdomen at least partly red Area of metathorax short, distinctly plicate, with a prominent raised rim 1. 4. cerviculis Cockerell. 2. soUs n. sp. 3. longm'ini n. sp. siibrussatus n. sp. 5. 6. cervicalis Cockerell. Area of metathorax long, feebly sculptured, subemarginate at apex, without a raised rim . . . . . . . . paramelcenus n. sp. 6. Flagellum red beneath lichatinus n. sp. Flagellum wholly black . . . . . . • • • • • • • • • • ■ • • • '^• 7. Larger ; fourth abdominal segment entirely black . . . . . . hirtiventris n. sp. Smaller ; fourth abdominal segment red annexus n. sp. B
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