. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 274 BEES FROM THE HIGH LANDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND VICTORIA. Legs, anterior with a curled white pollen-sweeper; tarsi black; claws reddish; hind calcar black, finely serrated; tegulae as in male; wings with costal edge darker; nervures black; second cubital cell very long; ptero- stigma large, black; hamuli Fig. 1. Meroglossa hardcastlei Rayment. 1 and 2: Head capsule and mouth- parts of male. 3 and 4: Same, of female. 5: Sculpture of meso- thorax. 6: Of metathoracic area. 7: Of first abdominal segment. Locality: White Swamp, Macp
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 274 BEES FROM THE HIGH LANDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND VICTORIA. Legs, anterior with a curled white pollen-sweeper; tarsi black; claws reddish; hind calcar black, finely serrated; tegulae as in male; wings with costal edge darker; nervures black; second cubital cell very long; ptero- stigma large, black; hamuli Fig. 1. Meroglossa hardcastlei Rayment. 1 and 2: Head capsule and mouth- parts of male. 3 and 4: Same, of female. 5: Sculpture of meso- thorax. 6: Of metathoracic area. 7: Of first abdominal segment. Locality: White Swamp, Macpherson Range (J. Hardcastle, Junr.). Type and allotype in the collection of the author. Allies: M. desponsa (Smith). Reared from cells in twig of Tristania conferta. The complete biology is awaiting publication. These bees gather pollen from Tallow-wood, Eucalyptus microcorys. Division Colletiformes. Family Collettdae. Subfamily Diphaglossinae. EURYGLOSSIDIA ACAC3AE, Sp. UOV. Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, to whom I submitted specimens of the red bees, writes:—"They are not E. rectangulata; comparing your female with a cotype, yours is larger, with redder wings, and a much darker abdomen, so that it has quite a different aspect".. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Proceedings. [Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales]
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