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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Paracolletes semiviridis sp. n. 
Male. Length about 8-3 mm. ; head and thorax black, with much 
outstanding white hair, pale ochreous on thorax above ; hair of face very 
dense, long, silky, and pure white ; mandibles rufescent apically ; antennae only 
moderately long, the flagellum chestnut red beneath except basally ; front 
and vertex dull ; mesothorax and scutellum dull ; base of metathorax shining ; 
tegulse brown : wings strongly brownish, with dark stigma (which is well 
developed) and nervines ; basal nervure falling conspicuously short of nervulus ; 
second cubital cell receiving recurrent nervure slightly beyond middle, practically 
at middle ; third cubital very long, receiving second recurrent a considerable 
distance before end ; femora black, with knees red ; tibiae and tarsi bright 
chestnut red ; abdomen dull olive green, closely and finely punctured, hind 
margins of tergites very pale testaceous, and thinly beset with short white 
hair, only noticeable in certain lights ; apex with white hair ; venter with bands 
of pure white hair. 
Charleville, Queensland. Sept. 12. 1920 (A.J. Turner ); Queensland Museum. 
This may be compared with P. castaneipes Ckll., wilich is much larger, with 
black hair on thorax above. 
Paracolletes nomiseformis sp. n. 
Male. Length about 8 mm. ; black, with the hind margins of the 
closely punctured abdomen broadly testaceous, with a little red just above ; 
head and thorax densely hairy, the hair long and shaggy, white on cheeks 
and lower part of mesopleura, dull white on face and front, very pale greyish, 
with a yellowish tinge, on thorax above and on vertex ; mandibles with a 
bright red subapical band ; tegument of clypeus all black ; flagellum very short, 
bright ferruginous beneath except at base ; a polished shining area at each 
side of vertex ; mesothorax shining, finely punctured ; scutellum polished ; base 
of metathorax rugulose, with a fine transverse keel, the marginal sutures 
heavily ridged laterally; tegulse dark reddish, closely punctured; wings greyish 
hyaline, the apex suffusedly darker ; stigma well developed but narrow, dark 
rufous ; basal nervure falling conspicuously short of nervulus ; marginal cell 
rather short, obliquely truncate ; second cubital cell very small, receiving 
recurrent nervure near middle ; third cubital very long, receiving second 
recurrent far from end ; legs dark brown, with white hair ; abdomen loosely 
hairy all over, but without hair-bands. 
Three males : Charleville, Queensland, Sept. 11, 1920 (A. J. Turner) ; 
Queensland Museum. Very near P. sigillatus Ckll., but smaller, face much 
narrower, and mesothorax much more punctured. It looks like a Nomia. 
Paracolletes plumosus (Smith). 
Female : Stanthorpe, Q., 6-1-26 (P. A Perkins). The base of the meta- 
thorax may or may not be transversely striate in this species, as I have 
understood it. Possibly more extensive collecting may show that two species 
are included in P. plumosus as now understood. The genitalia of the males 
should be examined. 
