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



red, the tarsi more or less stained with black; mandibles with 

 an obscure red mark subapically ; flagellum long, but ordinary 

 in form, dark coffee-brown beneath, redder at apex ; clypeus 

 finely and closely punctured, supraclypeal area elevated, 

 shining; front dull ; face and cheeks with shining silvery hair; 

 on front the thin long hair is dull white, but on vertex it is 

 fuscous, contrasting with the shining white of the occiput ; 

 hair of thorax white, except on disc of mesothorax and scu- 

 tellum, wdiere it is fuscous ; prothorax shining, but mesothorax 

 and seutellum appearing granular, somewhat glistening ; the 

 mesothorax under the compound microscope shows small 

 punctures as closely place 1 as possible, the narrow margins 

 between not tessellate ; postscutellum without a process ; 

 area of metathorax glistening but minutely sculptured, 

 somewhat bulging transversely in the middle, but not cari- 

 nate ; tegulje ruf'o-piceous. Wings dusky, the nervures and 

 the narrowly lanceolate stigma dark rufo-piceous ; b. n. 

 falling a little short of t.-m. ; second s.m. narrowed above, 

 with sloping sides, receiving first r. n. much before middle ; 

 third s.m. receiving second r, n. some distance from end. 

 Legs with glistening white hair ; hind basitarsus with a pro- 

 jection on anterior side near base. Abdomen with hind 

 margins of second and following segments narrowly reddish ; 

 no hair-bands ; hair at apex pale chocolate ; venter with 

 white hair-bands. The abdomen is described as non-metallic, 

 and yet in certain lights it seems to have an elusive, hardly 

 appreciable greyish tint. 



Hah. Yallingup, S,W. Australia, Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 1913 

 {R.E. Tur7ier). 2 S- British Museum. 



Apparently related to P. rudis, Ckll., but not its male, as 

 the sculpture of the mesothorax is entirely different, 



Paracolletes atronitens, sp. n. 



^ . — Length 10 mm. or slightly over. 



Shining black, not at all metallic, with white hair, long on 

 head and thorax, but on vertex, and discs of mesothorax and 

 seutellum, it is black, and there is a blackish stain just beneath 

 theteguke; head broad; mandibles rufescen tat apex; clypeus 

 shining, with rather close moderate-sized punctures ; sides of 

 vertex brilliantly shining, but front dullish ; flagellum wholly 

 dark, long and thick, the joints of the apical half swollen (but 

 not angular) beneath ; mesothorax brilliantly shining, with 

 sparse feeble punctures ; seutellum shining in front, other- 

 ^\ ise rough and punctured ; postscutellum without a process ; 

 area of metathorax peculiar, with a basal depressed trans- 



