Records of Bees. 479 



broadly- pyrif or in outline^ the inner apical corner of each 

 being provided with a sliort spine, as it appears from above, 

 or lamdla, as seen from the side. There is nothing which 

 can be said to differ essentially from the type of genitalia 

 found in CuUetes. The third submarginal cell is remarkably 

 large, and the wings are very hairy. 



Paracolletes ffavomaculakis, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 9 mm. 



Slender, shining black ; eyes converging below ; facial 

 quadrangle much longer than broad ; face covered with very 

 light yellowish hair, dense and with a silky lustre at sides; 

 mandibles dark ; clypeus with large punctures ; antennae 

 ordinaiy, black, the flagellum faintly brown beneath ; cheeks 

 bearded with white hair; vertex and occiput, and also the 

 shining sparsely punctured mesothorax, with black hair; 

 scutellum (except anterior middle) and middle of post- 

 scutellum covered densely with long, erect, bright, light 

 orange-fulvous hair, and tubercles covered with hair of the 

 same colour ; metathorax and pleura with sparse dull white 

 hair, but there is a patch of black just under the wings; 

 area of metathorax with a slight transverse ridge ; tegulse 

 shining piceous. Wings dusky hyaline; stigma fairly large, 

 dark reddish , nervures dark brown ; b. n. falling a little 

 short of t, m. ; first r. n. joining second s.m. very near its 

 base; second r. n. joining third s.m. a short distance from 

 its apex ; third s.m. having at least twice the area of second. 

 Legs slender, piceous, \\ith rather long thin pale hair. 

 Abdomen narrow, shining black, punctate, the apical part 

 with black hair, but no hair- bands ; apical plate strongly 

 fringed with hair ; at the base of the penultimate ventral 

 segment is a thick suberect fringe of hair, shortest in the 

 middle. 



IJab. Australia (no other particulars known) ; from the 

 F. Smith collection ; 79. 22. 



By the venation and the black hair on thorax, this is 

 nearest to P. argentifrons (Smith) ; but it is easily distin- 

 guished by the patch of fulvous-yellow hair on the scutellum. 



ParacoUetes cupreus semipiirpiireus , subsp. n. 

 $ . — Length about 9^ mm. 



Similar to F. cupreus (Sm.), but the caudal fimbria is 

 brown-black (not pale fulvous), the hair of the abdomen 

 beneath is white, and the stigma and nervures arc amber- 



