280 Mr. T. D. A. Cockeiell — Descriptions and 



described ior fervidus. The first r. n. m fervidus enters the 

 second s.m. about the middle ; in subdolus a little before the 

 middle. Other characters of subdolus are : b. n. meeting 

 t.-m. ; third s.m. very broad above, receiving second r. n. 

 some distance before the end; clypeus with strong, largely 

 confluent punctures of various sizes ; face with pale fulvous 

 hair ; mesothorax with large strong punctures^ sparse in 

 middle ; area of metathorax shining, with a strong and sharp 

 transverse keel, the channel above which is crossed b}^ raised 

 lines or ridges as in species of Colletes ; the margin of the 

 area is finely striate ; tegulse rufo-piceous ; hind spur long 

 pectinate, the teeth numerous but well apart ; tubercles with 

 bright orange-fulvous hair. 



Hab. Cheltenham, Victoria [French ; Froggatt coll. 175). 



Paracolletes gallipes, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 11 mm. 



Rather slender, black and clear ferruginous red ; head 

 seen fi'om in front broad, squarish, black, with the clypeus, 

 supraclypeal area, mandibles (except at apex), and labrum 

 dark red, the lower margin of the clypeus broadly chestnut- 

 red ; clypeus and supraclypeal area shining, with coarse 

 irregular punctures, the middle of the clypeus with a smooth 

 raised line ; mandibles broad, with a short inner tooth ; 

 cheeks small ; antennae light ferruginous, the scape darker 

 and suffused with black ; face, except clypeus, densely 

 covered with very pale ochreous-tinted hair ; cheeks and 

 occiput with similar hair ; thorax also densely covered with 

 pale hair, strong clear ochreous above ; thorax black, with 

 the prothorax, scutella, metapleurse, and metathorax ferru- 

 ginous ; mesothorax shining, with strong punctures, widely 

 scattered in middle ; area of metathorax short, concave, 

 smooth and shining ; posterior face of metathorax vertical ; 

 tegulpe small, light testaceous. Wings hyaline, unusually 

 pointed, almost subfalcate, apically ; nervures and the small 

 stigma ferruginous ; marginal cell subtruncate at apex ; b. n. 

 very straight, almost reaching t.-m. ; second s.m. quite large, 

 nearly square, receiving first r. n. very near its base ; third 

 s.m. large, broad above. Legs clear ferruginous, with pale 

 hair, that on hind legs abundant, reminding one of the con- 

 dition in certain fowls. Abdomen rather long and narrow, 

 clear ferruginous, shining, wuth feeble minute punctures, the' 

 apical margins of the segments broadly depressed and pale 

 testaceous; the abdomen has the usual long hair on first 

 segment, short pale hair thinly covering the basal halves of 



