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very probable that the genus Gastropsis, Smithy represents 

 the male sex of Stenotritus. The two agree in venation and 

 the structure of the metathorax. 



ParacoUetes crass/pes, Smith. 



A male from Caloundra, Oct. 30, 1912 (Queensl. Mus. 73), 

 is peculiar in the venation, the third s.m. being extremely 

 broad above, and tlie third t.-c. strongly bowed outward, 

 with only a single curve. 



ParacoUetes nigrofulvus, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length about IH mm., rather slender. 



Black, with the hind margins of the abdominal segments, 

 and the hind tarsi, obscurely ferruginous ; hair of head and 

 thorax abundant, mostly pale ochreous, but brownish black 

 on sides of face, on front and vertex (but not on occiput), 

 on raesothorax except anteriorly, and on scutellum ; Hagel- 

 lum strongly crenulated beneath_, scarcely reddish ; head 

 broad, facial quadrangle much broader than long ; mandibles 

 dark; clypeus densely covered with light ochreous hair, but 

 just above the hair is brownish; mesothorax and scutellum 

 shining, very sparsely and feebly punctured ; postscutellum 

 unarmed; area of metathorax smooth and shining, obtusely 

 transversely ridged in middle. Legs with ochreous hair ; 

 spurs testaceous ; tegulse shining piceous. Wings dusky ; 

 nervures and the large stigma red-brown ; b. n. meeting 

 t.-m. ; second s.m. receiving first r. n. distinctly before 

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

 end; third s.m. nearly or quite twice as large as second. 

 Abdomen shining, without evident punctures, the basal 

 segments with thin pale ochraceous hair, but on the third 

 and beyond this gives way to black, very short and scanty 

 until the sixth segment, on which it is long ; the sides sub- 

 apically show long pale hair ; apical plate broadly expanded 

 at end, truncate. 



Hab. Shoalhaven, New South Wales, March 9, 1894 

 {Frogyatt, 72). 



In my table in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1905, p. 345, this 

 runs to 15, and runs out because of the ochraceous and 

 black hair. It is related to the Tasmanian P. obscurus (Sm.). 

 In my table in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan. 190G, it runs 

 to P. obscnrlpennis, Ckll,, a related but much smaller Tas- 

 manian species. 



