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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
5. Abdomen with white hair-bands 
chrysopygopsis Ckll. 
Abdomen without hair- bands . . 
6 . 
6. Smaller ; red hair extending on fourth tergite 
Larger ; no red hair on fourth tergite 
7. Abdomen with black hair at base ; mesopleura with black hair . . 
Abdomen with white hair at base 
8. Wings with sharply contrasting colours, dark apically, hyaline basally 
Wings without such contrasting colours 
9. Small species with hyaline wings 
Larger species with dark wings 
10. Antennas broadly expanded at apex ; face with white hair 
Antennae not expanded at apex 
11. Face with white hair ; all the tibiae red 
Face with yellow hair ; at least mid and hind tibiae black. . 
macleayi Ckll. 
dinognatha C kll . 
semiclara Ckll. 
8 . 
batchelori Ckll. 
9. 
quinquelineata Ckll. 
lucidiventris Sm. 
semiluctuosa Sm. 
11 . 
12. 
.... 13. 
12. Small ; scape red 
Larger ; scape black 
wilsoni Ckll. 
hardy i Ckll. 
13. End of abdomen with red hair 
End of abdomen without red hair ; 
of joints 
hind tarsi creamy white with blac 
chrysopyga Sm. 
spots at ends 
laiipes Sm. 
When in Queensland, I caught only one specimen of Megachile , a male, 
M. rhodogastra Ckll., at Sherwood, March 2. It seems probable that M. rhodogastra 
and M. heliophila Ckll. are the sexes of one species. 
PARACOLLETES Smith. 
Paracolletes callander Cockerell. 
Male : Perth, W.A. (G. H. Hardy , 143). 
Paracolletes fimbriatinus Cockerell. 
Male and female : Stanthorpe, Q., 5-11-23 (No. 527). The female is new. 
It is related to P. gaUipes Ckll. more than to any female I possess, but is very distinct 
from it. Thorax above with rich fulvous hair ; front with fulvous hair ; sides of 
face with very pale yellowish hair ; clypeus very coarsely rugose, not keeled (it has 
a median keel in P. gallipes) ; end of abdomen with very dark fuscous hair (all pale 
in P. gallipes) ; abdomen below with broad creamy- w hite bands ; hind spur pectinate 
with long teeth ; stigma small but distinctly developed. It is a rather slender bee, 
about 14 mm. long. This is distinct from P.jimbriatus Smith, which has the stigma 
obsolete, mandibles ferruginous at apex (black in P. fimbrialinus), thorax clothed 
above with whitish pubescence, and scopa of hind legs silvery white (in P. fimbriatinus 
black on outer side of hind tibiae and very pale yellowish on inner side). 
Paracolletes friesei n. sp. 
Female. Length about 11 mm. ; rather robust ; head blue-green, shining, 
the clypeus black, convex, and sparsely punctured ; supraclypeal area brassy or 
coppery ; scape and base of flagellum black (the rest lost) ; mandibles black ; face 
at sides, front, and cheeks with long white hair, top of head with black hair ; front 
