380 Mr. T. 1). A. Cockerell — Descripiiofis and 



at sides, hut harflly at all in middle; area of metathorax 

 "with a strong transverse keel, and ahove the keel with 

 irregular longitudinal raised lines ; hair of tuhercles and 

 surrounding parts yellowish, of pleura and m(;tathorax 

 wliiter, of mesothorax and scutellum fuscous ; tegulse ferru- 

 ginous or reddish fuscous. Wings dusky hyaline ; nervures 

 and stigma fusco-ferruginous ; stigma quite large; b. n. 

 meeting t.-m. ; cubital nervure arched upwards ; second s.m. 

 small, strongly contracted above, receiving first r. n. toward 

 its end ; third s.m. large ; second r. n. meeting third t.-c. 

 Less black, with small joints of tarsi ferruginous ; anterior 

 tibige stained with ferruginous in front ; liair on inner side 

 of tarsi yellowish, on outer side of hind tibife long and 

 largely fuscous. Abdomen without hair-bands; hair at apex 

 dark sooty. 



Hah. Type from Victoria, Feb. 1901 {C.French) : Turner 

 collection, British Museum. Another from Windsor, 

 Victoria (C French) : Froggatt collection, 77. 



Resembles P.fimbriatus (Smith), but readily separated by 

 the dark legs and venation. By the same characters it is 

 separated from P. fimbria tinus, Gkll. By the red abdomen, 

 with a spot on eacli side of second segment, it resembles 

 P. bimaculatus (Smith), but it differs iu the colour of the 

 pubescence, in the legs, &c. The hind spur is very finely 

 pectinate, with many very slender long spines. Superficially 

 P. jjlotycejihalus looks like the South-American Perd'itu- 

 morpha bruneri, Ashm. 



ParacoUetes eugeniarum, sp n. 



? . — Length about 11 mm. 



Unusually narrow ; black, with the hind margins of the 

 abdominal segments depressed, broadly whitish hyaline, the 

 part just before the depression reddened ; pubescence dull 

 white, but dark fuscous on vertex behind ocelli, and a little 

 fuscous on anterior part of scutellum ; head broad, eyes 

 short ; mouth-parts typically Colletid ; elypeus dullish, 

 obscurely punctured ; lower part of supraclypeal area well 

 punctured ; scape black, flagellum bright clear ferruginous 

 beneath except at extreme base ; mesothorax shining, rather 

 closely punctured ; area of metathorax Avith five transverse 

 ridges ; pleura densely sculptured, partly vertically striate ; 

 tegulne pale amber. "Wings hyaline, nervures and stigma 

 dusky ferruginous; stigma very small and slender; b. n. 

 falling a little short of t.-ra.; second s.m. quite broad, 

 receiving first r. n. near its base ; second r. n. reaching third 

 s.m. a short distance before end. Abdomen shining, the 



