liecords of Bees. 5 



Paracolleles JIuvomacidatus, Coekcrell. 



A female from Kuranda {Bodd; Queensl. Mus. 8G) has a 

 patch of light fulvous hair on each side efface. 



ParacoUctes cai'uleotinctus, Cockerell. 



Sunnvbank, Brisbane, Nov. 19, 1913 {Hacker ; Queensl. 

 I^Ius. 90). 



Paracolleles enjthruras, sp. n. 



$ . — Lengtli about 12 mm. 



Head and thorax black, abdomen bright but not shining 

 ferruginous; wings unusually short, strongly dusky; head 

 large and broad ; hair of cheeks white, of sides of face white 

 uitli fulvous overlapping, of front and vertex pale fulvous; 

 clypeus convex, shining, with irregularly scattered not very 

 large punctures, its lower margin red ; labruin and mandibles, 

 except apically, ])right red ; scape long and curved, red at 

 extreme base ; flagellnni dull red beneath, except basally ; 

 niesothorax dull, with small indistinct punctures; hair on 

 tubercles fulvous, on pleura creamy white, on thorax above 

 short and thin, pale fulvous, more or less tipped with fuscous ; 

 area of metathorax dull ; tegulse dark red ; stigma ])iacti- 

 cally obsolete, nervures fuscous ; b. u. falling just short of 

 t.-m. ; second s.m. of good size, receiving Hrst r. n. about 

 or a little beyond middle ; third s.m. elongated, receiving 

 second r. n. a short distance before end. Legs black, Avith 

 the tarsi and anterior tibije in front clear ferruginous, middle 

 tibiae also reddened at end and in front; hair of legs pale, 

 fulvous on tiljiie and tarsi ; middle basitarsi broad, concave 

 beneath ; hind tibial scopa stained with fuscous above, 

 especially basally. Abdomen dull red, without evident 

 jjunetures and without hair-bands except on fifth segment 

 (and to some extent at sides of fourth), where there is a 

 greyish-brown band ; sides of second segment M'ith a large 

 round black spot ; venter with hair-bands, golden fulvous in 

 middle, white at sides. 



^ . — The convex subglobular lubrum, mandibles (except 

 a{)ieal margin), and ely[)cus cream-colour; i'ace and front 

 densely covered uith bright golden-fulvous hair; scape 

 bright red ; fiagellum long, crenulate, and obscure red 

 beneath ; head and thorax al)ove with bright fulvous hair ; 

 knees (hind ones very broadly), tibise, and tarsi red, middle 

 tibire largely blackish on outer side ; apical abdominal seg- 



