9C 



MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



first r.n. joining second s.m. before middle ; stigma large, fulvous, nervures light 

 fuscous ; knees, tibiae, and tarsi clear ferruginous, hind basitarsi very long ; abdomen 

 dull black. Avith first segment at base and very broadly at apex, and the remaining 

 segments apically, fulvo-ferruginous. 



Kuranda, Queensland (Dodd). A very distinct species, with the aspect of a 

 Nomada. I have thought it permissible, in forming the specific name, to avoid a 

 diphthong in the middle. 



Paracolletes aurescens n. sp. 



Male. Length about 11 mm. ; black, with the long (not moniliform) flagellum 

 light fulvo-ferruginous beneath, the hind margins of the first five abdominal segments 

 broadly reddish-testaceous, and the anterior and middle knees, anterior tibise in 

 front and at apex, middle tibiae at apex and base, hind tibise narrowly at apex and 

 broadly at base, and all the tarsi, clear ferruginous. Apical half of mandibles dark 

 reddish ; face and front up to and surrounding anterior ocellus, densely covered 

 with long orange-fulvous hair, the uppermost hairs forming a long erect fringe, con- 

 cealing the lateral ocelli ; cheeks with long white hair ; thorax above with j)ale 

 fulvous hair, becoming bright fox-red in front of tegulse ; posteriorly and on sides 

 of thorax the hair is paler, but not white ; disc of mesothorax and scutellum shining, 

 with scattered rather small punctures ; area of metathorax poHshed and shining, 

 weakly transversely striate above ; tegulse clear ferruginous ; wings clear, faintly 

 dusky apically ; nervures and the small narrow stigma dark fuscous ; b.n. falling 

 just short of t.m. ; second s.m. ver}^ broad, receiving first r.n. before the end of its 

 first third ; legs with pale hair ; anterior femora swollen, with a large oblong depres- 

 sion beneath ; discs of abdominal segment with a good deal of pale ochreous- tinted 

 hair ; a long silvery- white fringe on each side of apical plate ; venter mth thin bands 

 of pale fulvous hair. 



Bribie Island, Queensland, 1-4-18 {Hacker). Allied to P. colletellus Ckll., but 



much longer. On account of the structure of the metathorax, it cannot be the male 



of P. waterhousei Ckll. It is also probably allied to P. humerosus Sm., but certainly 



not its male. 



Paracolletes fallax n. sp. 



Female. Length about 9 mm. ; black, punctured, looking like an Halictus, 

 and with the basal nervure strongly arched. Hair of head and thorax short, pre- 

 vaihngly greyish, light reddish on vertex and scutellum, and more or less on 

 mesothorax, tubercles fringed with white hair ; mandibles black, inner tooth small ; 

 head broad ; clypeus broad and flat, with large oval punctures, which are densely 

 placed in middle ; front coarsely and very densely punctured ; antennae black, the 

 short flagellum reddish beneath apically ; mesothorax and scutellum densely and 

 rather coarsely punctured, but shining between the punctures ; j)ostscutellum with 

 a median tuft of spreading hair ; area of metathorax with irregular oblique rugae, 

 especially at sides ; tegulae piceous, partly rufous on outer side ; wings strongly 

 dusky, nervures and stigma piceous ; b.n. meeting t.m. ; second s.m. receiving first 

 r.n. in middle ; marginal cell obliquely truncate at end ; second s.m. broad, but third 



