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fuscous hair ; a tuft of fuscous just below wings, but pleura 
and metathorax with long loose white hair ; tubercles, region 
just behind, and adjacent corners of mesothorax with cream- 
coloured hair, dense and conspicuous on tubercles; legs 
with mainly white hair, long and spreading on hind legs; 
on inner side of hind basitarsi the hair appears soot-colour 
in some lights and silvery-white in others ; abdomen with- 
out bands, but with thin erect white hair, partly black on 
third aud fourth segments, and all black beyond; hind 
margin of fourth ventral segment with a broad stiff fringe 
of fuscous hair; face broad; eyes prominent, moderately 
converging below ; mandibles red apically ; antennz biack, 
not very long for a male ; mesothorax and scutellum shining, 
sparsely punctured, the scutellum with a median groove; 
area of metathorax large, triangular, with obscure cross- 
strie, but no transverse keel; legs ordinary, hind tarsi 
long; tegule piceous. Wings strongly brownish, with the 
base colourless ; the nervures and lanceolate stigma dark 
fuscous ; marginal cell obtuse at end; b. n. falling a little 
short of the very oblique t.-m. ; first r. n. joining second 
S.m. very near its beginning, second r. n. joining third s.m. 
some distance from its end. Abdomen polished and shining, 
with minute piliferous punctures. 
Hab. Yallingup, Nov. 1913, 2 ¢ (R. L. Turner; British 
Museum). : 
This looks like P. metaliescens, Ckll., but the sculpture of 
abdomen is entirely different. : 
Paracolletes perpolitus, sp. nu. 
g —Length about 9°5 mm. 
Robust for a male, with elongate-pyriform abdomen ; 
black, the head and thorax brilliantly shining, the abdomen 
duller, with very fine punctures, the hind margins of the 
segments depressed and brown; hair of head and thorax 
long and quite abundant, white, but on vertex, mesothorax, 
and scutellum greyish-fuscous ; legs with pale hair ; abdo- 
men with very little hair, and no hair-bands, apical segments 
with dark hair; ventral segments with thin bands of white 
hair, but no stiff fringe; mandibles black ; clypeus broadly 
overlapped by hair, but the disc bare, flattened, polished, 
shining, almost wholly impunctate, with a low median ridge ; 
antennz ordinary, flagellum ferruginous apically ; meso- 
thorax and scutellum polished, with sparse punctures; area 
of metathorax shining, finely transversely striated, obtusely 
transversely ridged or angled; legs black, with last tarsal 
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