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  Mr. 
  T. 
  D. 
  A. 
  Cockeiell 
  — 
  Descriptions 
  and 
  

  

  Paracolletes 
  providellus 
  baccJialis, 
  subsp. 
  n. 
  

  

  ^ 
  . 
  — 
  Length 
  a 
  little 
  over 
  7 
  mm. 
  

  

  Differing 
  from 
  providellus 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  abdomen 
  with 
  only 
  

   the 
  faintest 
  greenish 
  tinge, 
  easily 
  overlooked 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae, 
  

   and 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  their 
  basitarsi, 
  bright 
  chestnnt-red 
  ; 
  hair 
  

   of 
  face 
  stained 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  of 
  scape, 
  front, 
  and 
  vertex 
  dark 
  

   fuscous 
  or 
  black 
  ; 
  tegulse 
  piceous 
  ; 
  hind 
  margins 
  of 
  abdo- 
  

   minal 
  segments 
  hardly 
  at 
  all 
  reddish 
  ; 
  b. 
  n. 
  meeting 
  t.-m. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Bacchus 
  Marsh, 
  2.1.06 
  {F. 
  L. 
  Billing 
  hurst 
  ; 
  Nat. 
  

   Mus. 
  Victoria, 
  88). 
  

  

  I 
  should 
  have 
  thought 
  this 
  a 
  new 
  species, 
  were 
  it 
  not 
  

   that 
  the 
  two 
  following 
  varieties 
  appear 
  to 
  connect 
  it 
  with 
  

   P. 
  providellus 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Variety 
  a. 
  Abdomen 
  distinctly 
  dark 
  green 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   and 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  basitarsi 
  chestnut-red. 
  Victoria, 
  

   Sept. 
  1901 
  (C 
  French 
  ; 
  Turner 
  collection). 
  

  

  Variety 
  b. 
  Abdomen 
  distinctly 
  dark 
  green 
  ; 
  hind 
  legs 
  

   coloured 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  forms, 
  except 
  that 
  the 
  tibiae 
  

   have 
  a 
  broad 
  dusky 
  shade 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle. 
  

   Windsor, 
  Victoria 
  {French 
  ; 
  Froggatt 
  coll. 
  186). 
  

  

  Paraculletes 
  ibex, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  ^ 
  .■ 
  — 
  Length 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Slender, 
  black; 
  hair 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  long, 
  greyish 
  

   white, 
  black 
  on 
  sides 
  of 
  face 
  and 
  on 
  vertex 
  ; 
  mesothorax 
  and 
  

   scutellum 
  with 
  very 
  long 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  face 
  

   with 
  a 
  little 
  black 
  hair 
  ; 
  head 
  broad 
  ; 
  mandibles 
  red 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  

   clypeus 
  dullish, 
  not 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  flagellum 
  dark, 
  

   crenulated 
  below, 
  and 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  joints 
  projecting 
  

   above, 
  the 
  whole 
  suggesting 
  the 
  horns 
  of 
  au 
  ibex 
  ; 
  meso- 
  

   thorax 
  moderately 
  shining, 
  little 
  punctured 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  dull 
  

   and 
  granular 
  ; 
  area 
  of 
  metathorax 
  large, 
  dull, 
  shining 
  at 
  

   extreme 
  base. 
  Legs 
  slender, 
  black, 
  with 
  pale 
  hair 
  ; 
  spurs 
  

   creamy 
  white 
  ; 
  tegulse 
  piceous. 
  Wings 
  a 
  little 
  dusky, 
  

   nervures 
  and 
  the 
  large 
  stigma 
  dusky 
  ferruginous 
  ; 
  b. 
  n. 
  

   meeting 
  t.-m. 
  ; 
  second 
  s.m. 
  broad, 
  receiving 
  first 
  r. 
  n. 
  a 
  

   little 
  beyond 
  middle 
  ; 
  third 
  s.m. 
  broad 
  above, 
  receiving 
  

   second 
  r. 
  n. 
  some 
  distance 
  from 
  end. 
  Abdomen 
  dullish, 
  

   black, 
  hardly 
  punctured, 
  hind 
  margins 
  of 
  segments 
  obscure 
  

   reddish 
  ; 
  hair 
  of 
  abdomen 
  very 
  thin, 
  scattered, 
  pale, 
  but 
  

   dark 
  fuscous 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  ventral 
  segments 
  with 
  thin 
  white 
  

   hair-fringes. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Windsor, 
  Victoria 
  {French, 
  1909; 
  Froggatt 
  coll. 
  95). 
  

  

  