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with dark stigma and nervures ; first r. n. joining second 

 s.ra. beyond middle; third s.m. much broader above than 

 second. Legs entirely clear honey-colour, with glittering 

 slightly yellowish hair ; hind legs slender, quite normal. 

 Abdomen beneath and the first segment broadly at sides 

 ferruginous ; hind margins of dorsal segments broadly 

 reddish hyaline ; apex with the two short spines of Reepenia ; 

 stipites very long and slender, moderately curved, slightly 

 bulbous at end_, not hairy; sagittse long, simple, tapering 

 apically. 



Hab. Cape York, Queensland, 1909 (W. W. Froggatt, 68). 



Closely related to Nomia variabiHs, Friese, of which it is 

 the mainland representative. It could perhaps be regarded 

 as a subspecies of variabilis, but since it is quite isolated from 

 the other forms, it seems best to regard it as a species. 1 

 now feel convinced that when the mouth- parts and abdo- 

 minal structures of Tetralonia brevicornis, Smith, have been 

 carefully examined that species will also fall in Repeenia. 

 From brevicornis and variabilis the new species is most easily 

 known by the pallid legs. Owing to the coloration of tlie 

 abdomen there is quite a close superficial resemblance 

 between N. eboracina and A^ tomentifera (Friese). 



Paracolletes crassipes, Smith. 



Professor Froggatt has taken both sexes in New South 

 Wales. Two males before me come from Leura, Jan. 5 and 

 20, 1903. 



Smith described only the female. The male is similar, 

 but less robust, with a thick flagellum which is strongly 

 crenulated beneath, while all the knees, tibi?e, and tarsi are 

 ferruginous. The face is covered with long, pale, ochreous- 

 tinted hair. The abdominal segments are distinctly greenish, 

 with broad reddish hind margins. 



Paracolletes crassipes leptospermi, subsp. n. 



^ . — Length about 12 mm. 



Head and thorax black ; first abdominal segment black, 

 with the hind margin broadly pale reddish ; the other 

 segments dark greenish (the second greenest), with the hind 

 margins broadly ferruginous ; face covered with yellowish- 

 white hair ; cheeks with long white hair ; mouth-parts 

 typically Colletiform ; mandibles black, reddish in middle ; 

 flagellum long, ferruginous beneath ; facial quadrangle much 

 longer than broad; mesothorax and scutcUum shining, with 



