200 MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



PARACOLLETES Smith. 

 Paracolletes ornatissimus n. sp. 



9. Length about 8-5 mm. ; head and thorax yellow-green, bluish green on. 

 l^leura and metathorax ; clyi^eus and supraclj^^eal area black (more or less edged 

 \\ith rosy), very smooth and shining, the clypeus with strong well-separated punctures ; 

 mandibles black, faintly reddish subapically ; flagellum obscure brown beneath, 

 becoming clear red at apex ; face and cheeks with dull white hair, vertex 

 with fuscous ; mesothorax closely but shallowly punctured, dull and granular, the 

 posterior disc shining ; area of metathorax with delicate raised hnes ; hair of thorax 

 above pale ferruginous ; tegulse piceous ; wings clear, stigma lanceolate, amber 

 colour ; legs black, with the hind tibial and all the tarsi red ; scopa of hind tibiae large, 

 dark fuscous on outer side, otherwise wliite ; abdomen shining but not polished, not 

 evidently punctured, bright peacock green shading posteriorly into briUiant Ulac- 

 jDurple, the first segment crimson shading posteriorly into purple ; caudal fimbria 

 black ; venter with long pure white hair. 



(J. Head and thorax dark blue-green, suffused with yellowish green on the 

 front ; flagellum long, entirely dark ; abdomen peacock-green, the first segment 

 crimson, shading through purple into green posteriorly ; all the knees, tibiae and tarsi, 

 and hind femora excejDt at base, chestnut-red ; hair of head and thorax above strongly 

 suffused with blackish. 



Hab. : Oxley, Brisbane, Sept. 24, 1914 {Hacker). The female is the type. Close 

 to P. semipurpureus (Ckll.), of which it may be a brilliantly coloured race, but I have 

 seen semipurpureus from various locahties, and never such a form as that now described. 

 The male resembles P. plumosellus Ckll., but differs by the black tegulse. From P. 

 plumosus Sm. the new form is easily known by the much smaller size. P. bicolor Sm. 

 is the male of plumosus, as Mr. Meade-Waldo has determined. P. amabilis Sm, is also 

 allied. Austrahan students may determine by field studies that P. ornatissimus is not 

 entitled to specific rank, but such a beautiful form deserves a name, which can then 

 be used in a varietal or subspecific sense. The species bears Hacker's number 147. 



NOMIA Latreille. 

 Nomia gracilipes Smith. 

 A female from Darra, Brisbane, 10.3.14 (153). The last three abdominal 

 segments are chestnut-red, much brighter than I have previously seen in this species ; 

 the first three segments are blue. 



PARASPHECODES Smith. 



Thorax clear ferruginous 

 Thorax black 



1. Abdomen browTi 



Abdomen wholly or partly chestnut -red . . 



2. Abdomen entirely red 



Abdomen with only the first three segments red 



aurantiacus Ckll. 



.. 1. 



bribiensis Ckll. 



2. 



speculiferus Ckll. 



leptospermi Ckll. 



Parasphecodes aurantiacus n. sp 



$. Length 8 mm. ; head black, with the lower half of clypeus obscure testa- 

 ceous, labrum ferruginous, mandibles ferruginous with the bidentate aj^ex black ; 

 clypeus shining, with sparse large punctures ; front dull and granular, shining at 

 extreme sides ; scape fulvous, flagellum dark brown, redder beneath ; hair of head 

 short and scanty, pale ; thorax, tegulse, and legs entirely bright orange-fulvous, 



