44 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



of front it is long and white, faintly tinged with yellowish, 

 on upper part of front and on vertex it is black ; meso- 

 thorax shining, with shallow punctures, scutellum rougher ; 

 postscutellum with a mammiform median tubercle ; area 

 of mctathorax brilliantly shining, not carinate, margined 

 by a finely beaded groove; hair of thorax mostly dull 

 white, but black on discs of mesothorax and scutellum, 

 and a black patch beneath the wings, just behind the 

 tubercles ; tubercle of postscutellum with hairs partly 

 dark; tegulse black. Wings dusky, nervures and the lan- 

 ceolate stigma dark reddish brown ; b. n. meeting t.-m. ; 

 first r. n. joining second s,m. much before middle; second 

 r. n. joining third s.m. near or at end. Hair of legs black 

 or fuscous on outer side of tibire and tarsi, otherwise white, 

 but yellowish on inner side of basitarsi (fulvous on anterior 

 pair) ; hind spur with very slender long spines. Abdomen 

 shining, weakly punctured; venter with white hair. 



(J.— L-ngth 11-12 mm. 



Much more slender, with the light hair of head and thorax 

 pale fulvous, brightest on face; fiagellum very thick, wiih 

 angular joints, suggesting ibex-horns ; tubercle on post- 

 scutellum small and inconspicuous. Knees, all the tarsi, 

 tibiae at apex, and anterior tibise in front, clear red. Abdo- 

 men only very feebly metallic, and wholly without the spots 

 of white hair ; apical plate broadly rounded, subtruncate. 



Hub. Yalliugup, S.W. Austiaba, Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 1913. 

 2 ^ , 5 (S (R. E. Turner). British Museum. 



Tiie female is the type ; the sexes were sent associated, 

 otherwise I should have hesitated to put them together, as 

 they look very different. They agree, however, in venation, 

 metathorax, &c. The male, by its antennae, resembles the 

 much smaller F. ibex, Ckll. The female in Tab. 1 runs near 

 P. providus, and may be compared also with P.jrontalis ; in 

 Tab. 2 it runs out near P. obscuripennis ; in Tab. 3 it runs 

 to providus. It is very different from all of these. The 

 male in Tab. 1 runs out at 7 if the abdomen is considered 

 metallic ; otherwise it goes near the quite distinct P. chaly- 

 beatus. In Tab. 2 it runs rather near obscuripennis and 

 subj'uscus ; and in Tab. 3 near providus. 



Puracolletes metallescens^ sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 1 1 mm. 



Kather slender, black, the abdomen very dark bluish 

 gi-een ; head broad ; mandibles black, obscurely red apically ; 

 malar space linear ; ciypeus shining, with distinct, not very 



