484 Mr. T. D. A. CotkeveW— Descriptions and 



hyaline, slightly stained with reddish; stigma dark reddish, 

 nervures fuscous ; b. n. not quite meeting t. ni. ; second s.m. 

 strongly narrowed above, and receiving the first r. n. about 

 its middle ; third s.m. receiving the second r. n. a short 

 distance before its end. Hair at apex of abdomen all pale; 

 venter normal. 



Ilah. "Australia" (no more precise locality known), 

 56. 94. 



A second specimen {'' Australia," 66. 64) is a little smaller, 

 with much lighter (reddish amber) stigma and nervures, and 

 no dark hair on vertex or scutellums ; it is perhaps a distinct 

 species. By the reddened hind margins of the abdominal 

 segments, this resembles P. providus (Sm.) and P. frontalis 

 (Sm.j. The dark mandibles &c. readily separate it from 

 frontalis ; from providus it appears to be distinguished by 

 several details, but as that species is known only in the 

 female, it is perhaps not quite certain that provideUus may 

 not be its male. 



Paracolletes ohscuripennis, sp. n. 



(S . — Length about 9 mm. 



Elack, the abdomen very faintly ochreous, somewhat as in 

 P. chalyheatus ; pubescence (somewhat spoiled from immer- 

 sion in a liquid) pale, dense and yellowish (perhaps partly 

 stained) on face, but black on vertex and upper part of front, 

 and largely so on mesothorax and scutellum. Legs black with 

 pale hair, the tarsi slightly rufescent ; tegulse dark reddish, 

 clouded with fuscous. Wings rather light fuliginous 

 throughout, the stigma and nervures dark; stigma large; 

 b. n. not quite meeting t. m., or rather meeting it a little on 

 one side ; second s.m. broad (narrower, but not narrow, 

 above), receiving first r. n. about its middle; third s.m. 

 receiving second r. n. near its end. Mandibles dark, biden- 

 tate ; antcnuse dark, faintly reddened at apex ; maxillary 

 palpi with the first four joints subequal, and the fifth shortest, 

 the last three more slender than the first three ; meso- 

 thorax shining, sparsely punctured ; area of metathorax large, 

 dullish, humped in the middle, but with no transverse keel ; 

 abdomen without hair-bands; the hair near the apex is 

 black ; venter normal. 



PJab. Tasmania; no other particulars known. 



This has the form and appearance of P. viridicinctus, but 

 it is known from that and from P. chalyheatus by its dark 

 wings. In P. viridicinctus the metathoracic area is short, 

 and the posterior lateral margin is a simple grooved line, 



