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



thorax largeh^ dull white, but black on discs of mesothorax 

 and scntellum, and a large black patch below wings ; hair at 

 sides of metathorax stained with f uscons ; mesothorax and 

 scutelhim brilliantly shining, with irregularly placed shallow 

 punctures; scntellum Avith a median sulcus; postscutellum 

 with a very prominent obtuse tubercle, Avhich is not bifid ; 

 area of metathorax triangular, shining, minutely striate on 

 npper middle, somewhat bulging transversely, but not 

 carinate ; at sides of area the usual beaded impressed line 

 expands, forming a series of elongate pits ; tegulaj piceous. 

 \^'iags brownish, nervures and the small lanceolate stigma 

 rufo-piceous ; b. n. meeting t.-m. ; first r. n. joining second 

 s.m. near end of first third ; second r. n. joining third s.m. 

 a short distance from end ; tibiee and tarsi with fuscous 

 liair on outer side ; hair on inner side of hind basitarsi grey ; 

 hind femora with a curled scopa of silvery-white hair. Abdo- 

 men with very little hair, and no bands or spots ; punctures 

 scattered and extremely minute ; caudal fimbria black ; 

 venter with white hair. 



Hab. Yallingup, S.W. Australia, Sept. l4-0ct. 31, 1913, 

 3 <i (R. E. Turner). British Museum. 



Structurally very close to P. sexmaculatus, though that has 

 a shorter process on postscutellum and a much more closely 

 distinctly and punctured abdomen. Mr. Meade- Waldo notes: 

 " Near P. vigilans, Sm., which we have from same locality." 

 In P. vigilans the process on postscutellum is bidentate. 



Paracolletes rhodopus, sp. n. 



5 . — Length a little over 13 mm. 



Rather robust, black ; hind tibise bright ferruginous, with 

 hair of the same colour on its outer side, and on inner paler 

 and yellower ; hind tarsi red, end of basitarsus and beyond 

 suffused with dusky ; anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi 

 black, with the last tarsal joint red ; hair of head and thorax 

 abundant, black in the same places as in F. suhvigilans, other- 

 wise pale ochreous-tinted; mandibles dark; clypeus shining, 

 strongly punctured ; antennae black, reddish beneath at apex ; 

 scape long, flagellum short ; mesothorax and scntellum 

 shining, rather well punctured ; postscutellum with a rather 

 low conical process ; area of metathorax shining, more or less 

 transversely striate, slightly elevated in the middle, but not 

 keeled ; inner surface of basitarsi with bright red hair ; 

 anterior tarsi with fuscous hair on outer side, but middle 

 with red ; tegulse black anteriorly, red posteriorly. Wings 

 dusky, nervures and the lanceolate stigma dark rufo-f uscous ; 



