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with tints of blue, with abundant long pale yellowish hair 

 (yellowest on face), but the scutellum and hind part of 

 niesothorax (except its hind border) with black hair ; facial 

 quadrangle much longer than broad ; mandibles dark, 

 rufescent apically ; antennae long, dark, the third and last 

 three joints more or less reddish beneath ; vertex and front 

 strongly punctured, with blue tints, a small shining smooth 

 space on each side of the ocelli ; mesothorax shining olive- 

 green, with very strong punctures ; area of metathorax 

 triangular, shining, without any transverse ridge or keel ; 

 pleura yellowish green, very closely and strongly punctured ; 

 tegulae shining piceous. Wings clear, iridescent ; ncrvures 

 and stigma very dark red-brown ; stigma rather large ; 

 marginal cell long, narrowly obliquely truncate at apex ; 

 b. n. falling short of t. m. ; second s.m. broad, especially 

 below, receiving the first r. n. well before its middle ; third 

 s.m. receiving the second r. n. a short distance before its 

 end. Legs metallic yellowish green ; the anterior tibiae 

 yellowish ferruginous in front; all the claw-joints largely 

 red ; spurs dark. Abdomen shining and strongly punctured, 

 blue-green, with splendid purple tints on the tirst two 

 segments ; hair of abdomen pale to a little beyond middle of 

 third segment, beyond that black or almost, the black hair 

 at apex quite abundant; apex ending in a broad fan-shaped 

 plate ; hist ventral segment shining, raised in the middle, 

 and having on each side a conspicuous tuft of hair. 



[Jab. Queenland {Gilbert Turner, '^ Seaf. 1, 91 ; 433"). 

 Two specimens. 



A very distinct species, not closely allied to any yet 

 described; best known by the narrow, brilliantly coloured 

 and strongly punctured abdomen. 



ParacoUetes amaUlis (Smith). 



Described from " Australia,^' no particular region being 

 mentioned. A female before me is labelled Queensland, 

 72, 18. The venation differs a little from the type ; the b. n. 

 falling a little short of the t. m., and the second r. n. 

 entering the third s.m. a short distance before its end. The 

 abdomen is olive-green. The insect agrees so w^ell with 

 amahilis in all its more obvious characters, that I presume it 

 is not to be separated, notwithstanding the difference in 

 venation. 



ParacoUeles carinatulas, sp. n. 

 S • — Length about 8 mm. 



Rather slender ; head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green; 

 Ann. d: Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xvi. o'l 



