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Paracolletes turneri sp. uov. 



9 . Length about 11 mm. ; brilliant blue and green, with the 

 caudal fimbria bright orange-fulvous; head broad, strongly and 

 closely punctured ; clypeus and face green, the supraclypeal area and 

 lower part of clypeus with brassy tints ; vertex and cheeks mainly 

 blue ; hair of face white, dense at sides, of cheeks and occiput also 

 white, but of vertex fuscous ; a keel between antennas ; flagellum 

 short, dull reddish beneath ; tongue colletiform as usual ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum shining green, with strong well-separated punctures, 

 sparse on middle of mesothorax ; metathorax blue-green, the basal 

 area smooth and shining; pleura fine dark blue ; hair of thorax white, 

 but dark fuscous on scutellum and middle of mesothorax (a broad 

 band between the wings, only evident in lateral view); tegulae rufo- 

 fuscous ; wings hyaline, a little dusky, stigma and nervures piceous ; 

 second s. m. broad, receiving first r. n. well before its middle ; b. n. 

 just falling short of t. m. ; marginal cell narrowly truncate at apex; 

 legs dark reddish with mostly pale hair ; scopa on hind tibiae dark 

 fuscous on outer side, white on inner ; hind basitarsus with a long 

 posterior fringe of white hair ; hind spur with eight long spine-like 

 teeth ; abdomen shining, finely and very distinctly punctured, the seg- 

 ments green basally and bluer beyond, the first two segments with the 

 disc a splendid purple, beautifully contrasting with the green ; hair of 

 abdomen consisting of a short white tomentum, noticeable in lateral 

 view, and thin interrupted yellowish-white hair-bands, hardly notice- 

 able from above, on segments 2 to 4 ; fimbria brilliant fulvous ; ventral 

 segments with pale fringes. 



Allied to P. elegans (Smith), but readily separated by the 

 brilliant, contrasting and varied colors. 



Hab. — Mackay. Queensland, Jan., 1891 {Turner 615). 

 British Museum. 

 Paracolletes cupreus semipurpureus Ckll., var. a. 



9 . Abdomen olive-green, strongly tinged with brassy. 



Hab — Mackay, Queensland, May, 1900 {Turner 863). 

 British Museum. 

 Paracolletes providus (Smith), var. a. 



Port Philip, Australia {Coulon) . One of each sex ; Berlin 

 Museum. The female differs from Smith's description in 

 having the vertex, posterior middle of mesothorax and mid- 

 dle of scutellum with fuscous hair, and the basal half of 

 scopa on hind tibiae fuscous above. The flagellum is very 

 obscurely brownish beneath. Hind spur with numerous long 

 spine-like teeth. This has the shining abdomen of providus, 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. AUGUST, 1910. 



