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but on front (going; lower down at sides), vertex, raesothorax 

 (except in front), and scutellum it is dark fuscous ; mandibles 

 red at extreme tip ; elypeus shining, sparsely punctured, 

 with a U-like depression enclosing a raised, smooth, ridge ; 

 middle of supraclypeal area shining, with a row of punctures ; 

 Hagellum obscure brown beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 brilliantly shining, with sparse feeble punctures ; area of 

 mctathorax smooth, with a longitudinal median depression, 

 a transverse impressed line running close to the base, and a 

 slight one below that, broadly failing in middle ; the large 

 scopa of hind tibia creamy white except at extreme base, 

 where it is fuscous ; hair on inner side of basitarsi shining 

 red ; hind spur apparently simple, but the compound micro- 

 scope shows it to be minutely eiliate ; tegulse piceous. 

 AVings dusky, the large stigma and the nervures dark 

 reddish ; b. n. moderately arched, falling just short of t.-m. ; 

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

 middle ; third s.m. elongated, narrowed more than half 

 above, recei^^ng second r. n. about half as far from end as 

 first r. n. is from base of second s.m. Abdomen shining, 

 without hair-bands, its apical hair dense and black. 



Hab. New Zealand, 1909 (French, Froggatt coll. 99). 



Related so P. confusus (Ckll.) and P. imitatus (Sm.), but 

 distinguished by its rather large size, with dark hair on head 

 and thorax above. Distinctive characters are also found in 

 the metathorax and hind spur. It is also related to P. raetat- 

 licus (Sm.), differing in the colour of the hair and in the 

 venation. 



Paracolletes incanescens, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 11 mm. 



Kobust, shining pure black ; head and thorax very bairy, 

 the hair mostly dull white, but dark fuscous on vertex, upper 

 edge of front, mesothorax except in front and more narrowly 

 behind, scutellum and upper part of raesopleura ; mandibles 

 dark red at apex ; tongue very broad, the emargination slight; 

 head broad ; flagellum red at apex ; elypeus shining, sparsely 

 punctured, with a round flattened, even slightly concave 

 disc, across which runs a median obtuse ridge, more or less 

 continued on to the shining supraclypeal area ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum with evident but shallow punctures, not dense ; 

 area of metathorax brilliantly shining, with a very obtuse 

 transverse ridge ; tegulfe piceous. "Wings faintly dusky ; 

 stigma and nervures fusco-ferruginous, the stigma redder 

 than the nervures ; b. n. meeting t.-m. ; first r. n. joining 

 second s.m. a little before middle ; second r. n. joining third 



