478 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



granular instead of strongly punctate, the triangular second 

 subraarginal cell, &c. 



Head lai'ge, nearly circular seen from in front ; inner 

 orbits parallel ; facial quadrangle somewhat longer than 

 broad ; mandibles pale yellowish ferruginous with the 

 apex black ; face densely covered with yellow hair; scape 

 red ; fiagellum black, its last joint strongly curved inwards, 

 forming a sort of stout hook ; hair of thorax ochreous, 

 somewhat darker and redder above, that on postscutellura 

 long ; mesothorax and sciitellum excessively closely 

 punctured; area of metathorax triangular, smoothish and 

 shining, its margin minutely beaded, or that effect is pro- 

 duced by little cross-lines ; tegulae ordinary, light ferruginous. 

 Wings dusky; nervures and stigma ferruginous, rather dark; 

 stigma very small ; apex of marginal cell away from costa ; 

 b. n. meeting t. m. on the distad (apical) side ; second s.m. 

 triangular, narrowed nearly to a point above, receiving the 

 first r, n. just before its middle; third s.m. very oblique, 

 receiving the second r. n. at a moderate (variable) distance 

 from its end. Legs clear red, with abundant, but mostly 

 short, very pale yellowish hair ; coxse black, and hind femora 

 blackened behind ; hind femora somewhat incrassate, with a 

 posterior keel ; bind tibiae incrassate ; basal joint of hind 

 tarsi bent. Abdomen black, with the hind margins of the 

 segments broadly ferruginous ; the whole dorsal surface, but 

 especially the hind margins (not, however, forming bands), 

 •with a thin beautifully golden tomentum ; apical plate broad 

 and dark, truncate with rounded edges ; penultimate ventral 

 segment with a median longitudinal tomentose elevation. 



IJab. Moreton Bay, Australia (F. Smith collection, 79. 22). 

 Another is labelled Queensland (F. Smith collection, 79. 22). 



Paraco/leles moretonianus is so like a Nomia that I at first 

 took it for one. In reality, it appears to be closely allied to 

 P. venustus (Smith), from which it differs by its larger size, 

 red femora, &c. It should probably be separated generically 

 from ParacoUetes. 



ParacoUetes bimaculatus (Smith). 



J .—Perth, W. Australia; 93-198, collected by H. W. J. 

 Turner. 



The specimen has the tibife largely suffused with black. 

 The male genitalia of this species are rather striking, the 

 stipites and sagittse being very large. The former have the 

 basal half broad, the apical half narrow, like a finger, and 

 not hairy. The latter, taken together, present a sort of 



