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PARAOOLLETES Smith. 



After careful consideration, I feel obliged to unite with Paracol- 

 letes (which has priority of place) the Leioproctus, Dasycolletes and 

 Lamprocolletes of Smith. The characters of the venation relied 

 upon to separate these genera are in themselves slight, and not 

 constant throughout the several series. Thus, among the species 

 assigned to Paracolletes by Smith, we find : 



(1) Second r. n. enters third s. m. a little beyond its middle nitidus. 



(2) Second r. n. enters third s. m. far beyond its middle, but some distance from 



end marginatum. 



(3) Second r. n. enters third s. m. very near its end. 



crassipes, abdominalis, fervidus. 



The Tasmanian L. chalybeatus (Erichs.) may be regarded as the 

 type of Lamprocolletes. In this insect the b. n. meets the t. m., 

 which is very oblique ; the first r. n. joins the second s. m. a little 

 before its middle; the second r. n. joins the extreme tip of third s. 

 m., not really quite meeting the third t. c. ; the second s m. is a 

 little narrowed above. There is really nothing generic separating 

 this from such a species as Paracolletes crassipes. The description 

 also applies to Leioproctus imitatus, except that in imitatus the first 

 r. n. joins the second s. m. about its middle, and the second r. n. 

 enters the third s. m. a short distance before its end, in the manner 

 of Paracolletes marginatus. Lamprocolletus fulvus has the- second 

 r. n. joining third s. m. distinctly before its end. 



The insects look not unlike Colletes, though some (as Dasycolletes 

 rubellus) are very Andrena-Wke, and I believe that " Lamproeolle- 

 tes" peregrinus is an Andrena. The stigma is usually not well 

 developed; the second r n. is straight; the hind tibia has a knee- 

 plate ; the hind spur may be pectinate with rather numerous fine 

 long teeth (as in Dasycolletes rubellus" 1 , or minutely ciliate, appear- 

 ing at a glance simple (as in Dasycolletes metallicus). Lamproeol- 

 letes cladocerus, because of its extraordinary antennae, I have made 

 the type of a genus Cladocerapis. 



The species may be separated by the following tables : 



Table A. — Species of Paracolletes s. str. (Type crassipes). 



Abdomen red; first r. n. enters second s. m. slightly before its middle; b. n. 



meeting t. m. on the outer side abdominalis Sm. (T.). 



Abdomen not red 1. 



