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



form black spot on each side of second abdominal segment ; 

 hair of head and thorax dull white, partly fuscous on thoracic 

 dorsum ; head broad ; clypeus shining, with sparse irregular, 

 partly elongate, punctures ; sides of face with conspicuous 

 white hair ; antennae dark, flagellum very obscurely brownish 

 beneath except at base ; mesothorax with a minutely tessel- 

 late surface but shining, with small scattered punctures ; 

 scutellum shining, with sparse but very distinct punctures ; 

 base of metathorax with a moderately salient transverse 

 ridge, above which the surface is shining ; tegulse reddish 

 testaceous, dark in front. "Wings dusky hyaline, the 

 nervures and quite large stigma dark ferruginous ; marginal 

 cell elongate, obliquely truncate at end and slightly appendi- 

 culate ; b. n. meeting t.-m. a little on the outer side ; 

 second s.m. narrowed above, receiving the first r. n. near the 

 end ; second r. n, meeting third t.-c. Legs reddish black, 

 the anterior tibiae bright red in front ; hind tibial scopa with 

 fuscous hair above toward base ; hair on inner side of hind 

 basitarsus pale yellowish. Abdomen without bands, the 

 hair at apex very pale brownish or brownish white. 



Hub. Blackwood, Australia, Oct. 16,1891 [Froggatt, 168). 



Related to P. rubellus (Sni.), but the nervures are not 

 testaceous and the apex of the abdomen is neither dark in 

 hair nor tegument, [t has a close superficial resemblance 

 to Andrena sphecodina, 



Paracolletes platycephalus^ Cockerell. 



This was described from two females. I have before me a 

 male from ^Yindsor, Victoria [French ; Froggatt coll. 180). 

 It differs from the female in the usual manner, but also in 

 having the hair of the face and thorax above pale ochreous, 

 becoming a warm reddish on scutellum, but without fuscous ; 

 supraclypeal area and mesothorax dull, opaque ; scutellum 

 somewhat shining ; first tw o abdominal segments, seen from 

 in iront, with a beautiful purple lustre ; pale golden hair on 

 apical part of abdomen. Antennae long and dark, the 

 flagellum conspicuously moniliform. 



Paracolletes maorium, sp. n. 



$ . — Lengi;h 11 mm. or slightly more. 

 Rather robust ; head, thorax, and legs black ; abdomen 

 very dark blue-green, the hind margins of the segments 

 rufous ; hind part of cheeks, and thorax below, with quite 

 abundant long white hair ; on occiput, middle of face, and 

 sides of thorax it is also white, with a slight creamy tinge. 



