Records of Beef. 139 



Allitcl apparently to P. c'wereus (Sm.), but difFerin;; by 

 the black legs and other characters. Easily known from 

 F. providellus bacchalis by the peculiar antennae. 



Paracolletes semipurpureus (Cockerell), var. b. 



? . — Vertex, thorax above, and tubercles with light orange- 

 fulvous hair, contrasting with the white of face, pleura, and 

 metathorax; anterior and middle basitarsi almost entirely 

 black; red of hind tibiae and tar.si rather dusky. Abdomen 

 strongly crimson, the hair at end mostly whitish, but f nscous 

 at extreme apex ; b. n. meeting t.-m. 



Hab. K-utherglen, Victoria (French, 1909 : Froggatt coll. 



This is a variable species, but I believe certainly distinct 

 from P. cuprcus (Sm.), with which it was nt first associated 

 as a subspecies. A specimen of P. caruleotinctus, Ckll., is 

 also labelled Rutherglen, 1909 {French ; Froggatt coll. 85). 



Paracolletes si(/illatus, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 10 mm. 



Black, including the legs (tarsi reddish at end), the short 

 flagellum ferruginous beneath except at base, the mandibles 

 dark red apically, and the hind margins of the abdominal 

 segments broadly testaceous ; hair of head and thorax pale 

 ochreous dorsally, somewhat fuscous on vertex, but on face, 

 cheeks, pleurae, and metathorax dull white ; head broad ; 

 clypeus only moderately shining, with scattered punctures ; 

 mesothorax shining, with weak punctures ; scutellum shining 

 in front, dull and rough behind ; postscutellum angularly 

 produced behind, with a small shining button-like tubercle 

 (suggesting the seal on the flap of an envelope, whence the 

 specific name) ; area of metathorax didl, but other parts of 

 metathorax brilliantly shining. Legs with pale hair, hind 

 tibial scopa suffused with fuscous on outer side ; tegulse dark 

 rufo-piceous. Wings dusky, nervures and stigma dark 

 brown ; b. n. falling a little short of t.-m. ; stigma lanceo- 

 late ; marginal cell long and narrow ; second s.m. small, 

 receiving first r. n. a little before middle ; third s.m. very 

 large, more than twice as large as second, as broad above as 

 second is below, receiving second r. n. as far from its end as 

 first r. n. is from base of second s.m. Abdomen shining, 

 not punctured, densely covered apically with very pale 

 dusky ochreous hair, and bands of the same covering the 

 pallid margins of the third and fourth segments, and of the 

 second at sides. 



