482 Mr. T. D. A. Cockcrell — Descn'ptiuns and 



anterior and middle femora black, witli the extreme apex 

 red ; hind femora, and all the tibite and tarsi, rather dark 

 chestnut-red ; antennae dark, long, but the flagellum has a 

 hoary pruinosity, and is reddish beneath at apex; clypeus 

 olive-green, shining, with sparse punctures ; mandibles 

 bidentate, slightly reddi-sh towards the apex ; mesothorax 

 shining and sparsely punctured on middle, but anteriorly 

 duller with large, closer punctures. Wings hyaline, faintly 

 dusky at apex ; stigma yellowish ferruginous, nervures dark 

 fuscous ; second s.m. considerably narrowed above, re- 

 ceiving the first r. n. just before its middle; second r. n. 

 meeting third t.-c. ; b. n. falling a little short of t. m. ; 

 tegulse shining dark ferruginous ; pubescence pale,Avith dark 

 hairs on vertex and scutellum (not very well seen, as the 

 insect has been in some liquid) ; area of metathorax with a 

 strong, sharp, transverse keel ; ventral surface of abdomen 

 noimal. 



Hab. Queensland {Gilbert Turner, Eidg. 11. 91, 704). 



This is so much like P. amabilis that it might be taken for 

 its male, but for the sharp keel of the enclosure of meta- 

 thorax. This character allies it to P. carinatus (Sm.), but 

 the general coloration suffices to distinguish it from that 

 species. 



Paracolletes viridicincfus, s 



p. n. 



? . — Length a little OA'er 8 mm. 



Head and thorax black ; abdomen black with the depressed 

 hind margins of the segments broadly brassy green ; hair 

 of thorax light grey, bnt that on the scutelluras, mesothorax 

 (except in front), and vertex (but not occiput) mainly black ; 

 hair at apex of abdomen thick and black ; venter with three 

 long greyish-white fringes margining the segments, and a 

 fourth yellowish. Legs black, the hind tarsi very dark reddish, 

 Avith the first joint broadened and flattened; hair of legs mainly 

 pale, the hind femora above with a large crest of curled 

 white strongly plumose hair, but the knee capped with 

 black hair ; hind tibiae with light hair except on the upper 

 surface, where is much black ; hind spur pectinate with 

 many (7 or 8) slender spines ; clypeus smooth and bare, 

 shining, with sparse distinct punctures ; antennae black ; 

 front dull ; mesothorax shining, but dull in front, scarcely 

 punctured ; area of metathorax rather shining but granu- 

 lar, with a median longitudinal groove, but no transverse 

 keel; tegulaj shining black. "Wings yellowish, stigma and 

 nervures red-brown ; b. n. meeting t. m. ; second s.m. broad, 



