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piceous ; b.n. meeting t.m. ; first r.n. joining second s.m. considerabh^ before middle ; 

 legs black ; tibial scopa black above, white below ; abdomen without bands, first 

 segment \vith thin white hair, apex with black hair, venter with white hair. 



Brisbane, 5-9-16 (Hacker). Taken at Birkdale, on flowers of Boronia 

 ledifolia Gay, much like P. viridicinctus CklL, but the abdomen is quite a different 

 shade of green. P. viridicinctus is a Tasmanian species. It may also be compared 

 with P. versicolor Sm., but the hair on under side of abdomen is not at all yellow, 

 and there are other differences. 



Paracolletes regalis n. sp. 



Male. Length about 10 mm. : head and thorax black, abdomen shinins: 

 deep rich purple, without hair bands ; hair of head and thorax dorsally rusty black, 

 but on sides of face, cheeks, and sides of throax AvMte ; mandibles black ; clypeus 

 exposed, finely and regularly punctured ; antennae long, black, the flagellum very 

 faintly brownish beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum polished, Avith sparse punctures, 

 weak on mesothorax ; scutellum with a shallow median sulcus ; area of metathorax 

 without evident sculpture, dulhsh, except the obtuse transverse ridge, which is 

 shining ; tegulse dark reddish ; wings dusky, stigma and nervures j)iceous ; b.n. 

 meeting t.m. ; second r.n. greatly narrowed above, receiving fii'st r.n. in middle; 

 legs black ; abdomen ^dth some black hair apically, and thin white hair on ventral 

 surface. 



Kuranda Queensland (Dodd). There is a strong brown cloud in the marginal 

 cell and beyond, but it is not at all sharply defined. There is no such cloud in the 

 related P. recusus, described below. 



Paracolletes facialis n. sp. 

 Male. Length nearly 9 mm., slender ; head, thorax, legs, mandibles, antennae 

 (which are rather short for a male) and tegulae black ; abdomen shining very dark 

 purplish, with the depressed hind margins of segments more reddish ; vertex and discs 

 of mesothorax and scutellum with black hair, but head and thorax otherwise \\dth 

 long white hair, at sides of face dense, appressed, and pure white ; clypeus thinly 

 covered with long hair, but the convex shining distinctly punctured surface visible ; 

 front dull ; me-othorax and scutellum shining, with very weak sparse punctures ; 

 scutellum -with a distinct median sulcus ; area of metathorax mainly shining, without 

 a distinct transverse ridge, but with very delicate cross-striae ; wings faintly dusky, 

 ner\'xires and stigma fuscous ; b.n. falling short of t.m. ; second s.m. not greatly 

 narrowed above, receiving first r.n. much before the middle ; marginal cell obliquely 

 truncate at end ; third s.m. very long ; legs with white hair ; end of abdomen Avith 

 some black hair. 



Coolangatta, Queensland, 15-8-16 {A. J. Turner). Resembles P. regalis in 

 many respects, but easily separated by the wings. It is extremely like P. nitidulus 

 Ckll., but that has a pure black abdomen. 



