NEW A USTEALIAN BEES. 
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Launceston, Tasmania, Jan. 23, 1916 (F. M. TAttler). Allied closely to 
the last, and also to H. mundulus Ckll., from which it is distinguished by the 
shining margin of metathoracic area. At the same time and place, Mr. Littler 
took a couple of H. subinclinans Ckll. 
Paracolletes cyaneorufus sp. n. 
Female. Length about 7-5 mm. ; robust, head and thorax black, abdomen 
dusky chestnut red, with a delicate purple suffusion ; pubescence very scanty, 
pure white on cheeks and under part of thorax, white also on upper part of 
head, but on thorax above brown, though hardly noticeable; mandibles long, 
bldentate, wholly dark ; face very broad, clypeus and supraclypeal area highly 
polished, the clypeus with widely scattered large punctures ; front dull in 
middle, striate, shining and punctate at sides ; antennse black, the flagellum very 
obscurely reddish beneath apically ; meso thorax dull ; scutellum polished ; area 
of metathorax triangular, with a transverse ridge ; sides of thorax dull, with a 
brilliant shining space below wings ; tegula? rufous ; wings brownish hyaline ; 
stigma ferruginous, with dark margin ; marginal cell obliquely truncate at end ; 
basal nervure almost reaching the very oblique nervulus ; second cubital cell 
rather small, triangular, with a very small face on marginal cell ; the first 
recurrent nervure joining second cubital very near its end ; upper apical corner 
of third discoidal a right angle ; legs brownish black, anterior knees rufescent ; 
scopa of hind tibiae pallid ; abdomen shining, without hair bands or spots, apex 
with a fringe of brown hair. 
Bribie Island, Aug. 29, 1920 ( //. Hacker ) ; Queensland Museum. Close to 
P. rufoceneus Friese, but considerably smaller. The genus Euryglossidia is 
related to Paracolletes of this group, and not to Eut'yglossa. 
Paracolletes melanurus sp. n, 
Female. Length about 6-8 mm. ; black, the abdomen a faintly reddish 
black, and the hind tibise and tarsi obscurely brownish ; hair of head and 
thorax extremely scanty, fuscous on scutellum ; antennae short, black, the 
apical part of flagellum very obscurely reddish beneath ; mandibles long, with 
inner tooth remote from the reddish apex ; face very broad, the clypeus, 
supraclypeal area, and a space at each side of antennae shining ; clypeus with 
scattered strong punctures ; front dull ; mesothorax dull, scutellum moderately 
shining ; area of metathorax polished, without sculpture ; tegulis brown ; 
wings reddish hyaline ; stigma large, solid dark reddish ; nervures fuscous ; 
basal nervure meeting nervulus ; marginal cell very long, with narrow end : 
second cubital cell small, narrowed above, receiving recurrent nervure a little 
beyond middle ; first cubital longer than the other two together ; scopa of 
hind tibiae brown ; abdomen shining, practically hairless above, but with very 
dark brown hair at apex ; venter with erect pale (slightly ochreous) hair. 
Tooloom, N.S.W., Jan. 1926 (//. Hacker) ; Queensland Museum. Rather 
like P. nitidulus Ckll. in appearance, but venation quite different. The venation, 
except for the more produced marginal cell, is much in the style of P. 
incanescens Ckll. 
