374 Mr. T. I). A. Cockevell — Description* and 



short of t.-m. ; second s.m. very broad, receiving first r.n. 

 in middle : tegulre black ; hair of femora white, of tibiae and 

 tarsi black ; on inner side of anterior tarsi the hair is ferru- 

 ginous; abdomen, except for the bands, dull and black, with 

 no punctures and no distinct hair-bands ; caudal fimbria dark 

 sooty ; ventral segments fringed with white hair. 



Hub. Tambourine Mountain, Queensland, Oct. 27, 1912 

 (H. Hacker). Queensl. Museum 76. 



A very beautiful species, structurally like A. aureotincta, 

 Ckll., but differing by the absence of a band on first abdo- 

 minal segment, the dark hair of upper part of head, and the 

 dusky wings. 



Trichocolletes venustus (Smith). 

 Oakleigh, 1894 (B. F. Hill; Nat. Mus. Vict. 110). 



Paracolletes megachalceus, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 14 mm. 



Kobust ; head and thorax black, densely hairy ; abdomen 

 brassy green, the hind margins of second and following 

 segments broadly pale reddish ; postscutellum with a median 

 tubercle. Wings dusky hyaline, nervures ferruginous, b. n. 

 falling just short of t.-m. ; second s.m. broad, receiving first 

 r. n. some distance before middle ; third s.m. receiving 

 second r. n. very near end. Head very broad ; clypeus 

 shining, strongly punctured ; flagellum red at apex and far 

 toward base beneath ; hair of face, cheeks, pleura, and 

 occiput dull white, of front pale fulvous, of vertex purplish 

 fuscous, of thorax above (also just below wings) dense and 

 very bright rufo-fulvous ; disc of mesothorax shining, with 

 scattered punctures, but in front the mesothorax is more 

 closely punctured ; tegulre bright orange-ferruginous. Legs 

 red, more or less clouded with dusky, their hair mainly pale, 

 but fuscous on outer side of middle and hind tibiae and tarsi ; 

 hind tibial scopa very large and loose, beautifully plumose, 

 anteriorly white, fuscous behind, the tibia on inner side with 

 appressed light fulvous hair. Abdomen with much fulvous 

 hair, but no hair-bands ; hair of fifth segment bright red, 

 but of sixth more sooty ; venter with cream-coloured hair. 



Hob. Clarence River, New South Wales (Wilson) Nat. 

 Mus. Vict. 124). 



A very fine species, structurally related to P. denfiger, 

 Ckll., but larger^ more robust, and quite differently coloured. 



