52 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 
Paracolletes clypeatus, sp. n. 
g —Length about 10 mm. 
Rather robust ; head and thorax shining black, abdomen 
dark purple ; hair of head and thorax long and abundant, 
white on face, cheeks and occiput, black on vertex, pale grey 
(mouse-grey) on thorax; head broad; mandibles black, 
faintly reddish apically; clypeus and supraclypeal area 
exposed, nearly bare, flattened, longitudinally striate, and 
with a median keel; antenne black, only moderately long, 
flagellum submoniliform ; mesothorax polished, with sparse 
small punctures ; area of metathorax transversely striate ; 
legs black, with the last tarsal joint and patch on inner side 
of anterior tibie red; spurs bright ferruginous; tegule 
piceous. Wings very short, hyaline, faintly dusky apically ; 
stigma and nervures fuscous ; stigma very small ; first r. n. 
joiing second s.m. about middle. Abdomen without hair- 
bands ; hair at apex and on venter black. 
? .—Length about 11 mm. 
Robust, with the same facial structure, the median keel 
going some distance up front ; hind tibize with an enormous 
scopa, entirely black. 
Hab. Yallingup, S8.W. Australia, Nov. and Dec. 1913 
(R. E. Turner ; British Museum). 
Entirely unique by the peculiar structure of the face. 
The male is the type. 
Paracolletes ferricornis, sp. n. 
g .—Length a little over 11 mm. 
Robust; black, with head, thorax, and abdomen abundantly 
clothed with long pale fulvous hair; eyes large, pea-green, 
inner orbits parallel; facial quadrangle much longer than 
broad ; mandibles bidentate, black, with or without a red 
spot near middle; ocelli far below level of top of eyes ; 
scope very short, black, hairy ; flagellum long, entirely very 
bright ferruginous ; third antennal joint very long, slender, 
shining ; mesothorax shining, with small irregular punc- 
tures; scutellum closely punctured except the anterior 
margin, which is polished and impunctate; area of meta- 
thorax triangular, without any distinct sculpture, but with 
a median longitudinal pit (not always present), margin of 
area not beaded ; legs slender but of normal structure, the 
basitarsi long ; apices of femora broadly, and tibiz and tarsi 
entirely, bright ferruginous ; tegulz ferruginous, punctured. 
Wings reddish hyaline, stigma and nervures ferruginous ; 
