Records of Bees. ' 483 



receiving the first r. n. at or a little beyond its middle ; third 

 s.m. receiving second r. n. a short distance from its end. 



Ilab. Tasmania; 51. 153. 



In some ways like F. versicolor (Sm.), but the colour of 

 the abdomen is different, and there are other differences. 

 It is also allied to P. chalyl'eatus (Erichson), and I have 

 wondered whether it could be a colour-variety of that species ; 

 but at present there is no reason for assuming this. 



Paraco^letes spatulatus, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length slightly over 8 mm. 



Broad, with rather the shape of a female; head and 

 thorax black ; abdomen dark bluish green, or rather 

 yellowish green toward the apex, the hind margins of the 

 segments not reddened. Legs black, the tibiae stained with 

 red beneath, and the hind tarsi reddened at extreme base ; 

 hair of legs pale, but on inner side of the tarsi orange- 

 fulvous. Mandibles strongly bidentate, reddened only at 

 apex ; clypeus shining, with well- separated punctures ; 

 antennse dark, but flagellum greyish pruinose ; hair of head 

 and thorax light grey, but on vertex, middle of meso- 

 thorax, and scutellums there is a good deal of black ; 

 mesothorax and scutellum shining ; area of metathorax 

 dull, without any distinct transverse keel; tegulse shining 

 black. Wings clear, nervures and stigma dark red-brown ; 

 b. n. meeting t. m. ; second s.m. broad, receiving first r. n. 

 about its middle ; third s.m. receiving second r. n. near its 

 end ; end of abdomen with some sooty hair, and terminating 

 with a rounded ferruginous spatulate plate, near the base of 

 which, on each side, is a little tooth-like projection. 



Hab. Blackheath, New South Wales, 1895 {W. W. 

 Froggatt, 183). 



Allied to F. chaJyheatus (Erichson). 



Faracolletes providellus, sp. n, 



6 . — Length about 7i mm. 



Abdomen not narrow ; head and thorax shining black ; 

 abdomen shining dark bluish green, with the hind margins 

 of the segments broadly reddish ; hair of head and thorax 

 greyish white, a little black or blackish on vertex and 

 scutellums ; clypeus shining, with well-separated punctures ; 

 antennae dark ; middle of mesothorax scarcely punctured, 

 very shiny ; area of metathorax dull and granular, with no 

 sharp transverse keel. Legs black, with light hair, that on 

 inner side of tarsi vellowish ; tcguUc dark rufous. Wings 

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