92 . MEMOISS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Paracolletes truncatulus Cockerell. 

 Stradbroke I., Queensland, 9-9-11. 



Paracolletes obscurus Smith. 

 Kosciusko, 26-1-14 {A. J. Turner). The wings are not so brown as in specimens 

 from Mt. Wellington, Tasmania. 



Paracolletes chalcurus n. sp. 



Female. Length a little over 12 mm. ; head and thorax olive-green, bluish 

 green on pleura and sides of face ; clypeus strongly but rather sparsely punctured, 

 black, with less than the upper third green ; abdomen brassy yellow suffused with 

 •crimson, the hind margins of first four segments brilliantly crimson ; mandibles 

 black : scape black, long, and curved ; flagellum ferruginous at apex, and beneath 

 with the last three joints red and the others marked with red ; hair of face, cheeks, 

 and sides of thorax pale grey, of vertex long and blackish, of thorax above long 

 and tinged with fulvous, especially laterally, but partly blackened on disc of meso- 

 thorax and scutellum, there being also a vague blackish transverse band from side 

 to side anterior to the tegulse ; mesothorax roughened and closely punctate in front, 

 but the disc posteriorly polished, with few punctures ; scutellum polished anteriorly ; 

 area of metathorax transversely keeled, with two or three transverse sulci above the 

 keel, but fine oblique and irregular striae or raised lines below it ; tegulse fulvous, 

 wings hyaline ; stigma bright amber colour, nervures dilute sepia ; venation as 

 described for P. roseoviridis ; legs black, with small joints of anterior tarsi, middle 

 and hind tarsi entirely, and hind tibise, all reddish ; tibial scopa large aiid loose, 

 whitish below, blackish above ; abdomen without hair-bands ; first segment with 

 long dull white hair, in middle tinged with ochreous ; apex with blackish hair, but 

 tawny on each side of the apical plate, the sides of which arie concave ; venter with 

 ^\llite hair. 



Cunderdin, W. Australia, Nov., 1913 {R. Illidge). This is very like P. roseo- 

 viridis Ckll., described from a male about 8 mm. long, and it is possible that the 

 two are sexes of one species. As there is so much difference in size, and the sculpture 

 of the metathorax is not quite the same, I provisionally regard the present insect 

 as distinct. 



Paracolletes lioronise n. sp. 

 Female. Length about 11 mm. ; head and thorax black, abdomen peacock- 

 green, quite brilliant and beautiful, with a rather satiny gloss ; hair of head and 

 thorax long, dorsally grey mixed with black, laterally and beneath mainly dull 

 whitish, more or less blackened on clypeus and sides of face ; mandibles black ; 

 clypeus shining, strongly and rather closely punctured ; front dull, somewhat 

 glistening at sides ; antennae black, clear red at extreme apex, and the flagellum 

 very obscurely brownish beneath ; mesothorax dull in front but the disc shining, 

 with sparse punctures ; area of metathorax dullish with an obtuse transverse ridge, 

 but no keel or distinct sculpture ; tegulse piceous ; wings dusky, stigma and ner\Tires 



