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almost straight^ but slightly curved inwards ; in P. ohscuri- 

 pennis the area is large, and the posterior lateral margin has 

 a conspicuously beaded appearance and is quite strongly 

 curved outwards. 



ParacoUetes coUeteUus, sp. n. 



S ■ — Length 8 mm. 



Black, very pubescent, the face densely covered with light 

 yellow hair ; vertex and occiput with yellow hair like the 

 face, but cheeks with abundant white hair, long below, 

 forming a large beard ; mandibles black basally, rufous 

 apically, the apical tooth long and sharp, the inner very 

 small; flagellum clear red beneath, including the last joint; 

 head broad, orbits converging below; vertex rather dull; 

 hair of thorax ochreous above, lighter, but not a pure white, 

 below ; mesothorax shining, but rather closely punctured ; 

 area of metathorax somewhat shining, ridged transversely ; 

 tegulae shining fulvous. Wings hyaline and iridescent, 

 stigma and nervures ferruginous ; b. n. falling a little short 

 oft. m. ; second s.m. large and square, except for the fact 

 that the second t.-c. is bent inwards for its upper half ; first 

 r. n. joining second s.m. at its ej;treme base ; second r. n. 

 joining third s.m. at its apex. Legs with pale yellowish hair ; 

 femora dark, reddened at the knees ; tibise and tarsi clear 

 ferruginous, but all the tibiae with a large black median 

 patch. Abdomen with the basal half or more of the segments 

 grey-tomentose, and the apical margins broadly yellowish 

 hyaline, the junction of the hyaline with the black reddened ; 

 ventral segments 2 to 5 with the hind margins apparently 

 deeply excavated or concave in the middle, but the excava- 

 tions are filled in by hyaline membrane, so that the actual 

 hind margins of the segments are straight. 



Hah. Adelaide River, Australia (J. J. Walker, 5518, 

 5520) ; two, collected on the ' Penguin' Expedition. 



There is some resemblance to P. punctatus (Sm.), known 

 only in the female, but it does not seem likely that this is its 

 male. P. colletdlus has all the appearance of a small 

 CoUetes, such as C. fodiens, Kirby. 



Paracollotes semilautus, sp. n. 



d. — Length about 8 mm. 



Black, hairy, the hair in general cinereous or whitish, but 

 the long hair of the face (abundant but not dense enough to 

 hide the surface) is mixed with black on the clypeus and 

 Hack at the sides, and there is black also on the front and 



