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ParacoUetes euphenax, sp. n. 



(^. — Lengtli 8 mm. 



lilack, looking just like P. incanescens ^ , but abundantly 

 distinct by the following characters : — Face and front densely 

 covered with long cream-coloured hair ; flagellum hardly 

 moniliform ; mandibles broadly red at apex ; hair of" head 

 above entirely creamy white, though tbat of mesothorax and 

 scutellum is dilute brownish ; hair of metathorax very long 

 and abundant ; abdomen duUisb, without evident punctures, 

 and with more and longer hair. Wings considerably shorter ; 

 marginal cell longer, more produced apically; b. n. falling 

 short of t.-m. ; third s.m. longer, more narrowed above. 

 Anterior tibiaj and tarsi bright ferruginous, with a large 

 black stain behind ; the other tibite and tarsi black, tlie last 

 tarsal joint red ; middle knees red. On the venter of the 

 abdomen the fourth and fifth segments are broadly fringed 

 with orange- ferruginous hair. 



Hab. Brisbane, Queensland, Sept. 4, 1911 {Hacker; 

 Queensl. Mus. 12). 



I thought at first that this might possibly 1)6 the male of 

 P.advena (Sm.), but 1 believe it is distinct. The abdominal 

 hair-bands of P. advena are wholly wanting. 



ParacoUetes fervidus subdolus, subsp. n. 



? . — Length a little over 12 ram. 



Differing from Smith's description of P. fervidus by the 

 strong intermixture of fuscous hair on vertex, mesothorax, 

 and scutellum ; the anterior tibise bright clear red in front; 

 hair on outer side of anterior tibiae dull Avhite, of the middle 

 tibiiie dark fuscous, and the hind tibial scopa with a very 

 broad fuscous- black band behind ; hair on inner side of 

 posterior tibial light ochraceous, of their basitarsi red-golden 

 in front and whitish posteriorly. Wings evidently du>ky. 

 Apex of abdomen thickly clothed with greyish-chocolate 

 coloured haii', with ochieous hair on each side of fifth 

 si'gment, contrasting. 



This ought perhaps to stand as a distinct species, P. sub- 

 dolus, but it must at least be very close to P. fervidus. The 

 tlagellum is red beneath (except at base), as Smith described 

 for fenidus ; my notes on Smith's type state that the an- 

 tennae are dark, but 1 now think this was a mistake, due to 

 not looking sutficiently beneath. The broad, shining, well- 

 punctured abdomen of subdolus would at first sight be called 

 black, but it is in fact very faintly asueous, with the broad 

 hind margins of the segments dark reddish, exactly as 



