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dull in middle ; thorax dark blue green or greenish blue, the mesothorax and 
scutellum yellowish green with strong rosy tints ; mesothorax closely punctured, 
it and the scutellum densely covered with very bright orange-ferruginous hair ; 
thorax at sides and posteriorly with long white hair, but sooty in region of tubercles 
postscutellum, and sides of metathorax above ; area of metathorax with a sharp 
transverse keel : teguke dark, slightly reddish : wings hyaline, nervures and the 
well- developed stigma dark reddish ; basal nervure meeting nervulus ; second cubital 
cell receiving recurrent about the middle ; legs black, with the hair mainly black ; 
much long white hair on under side of anterior femora, white hair at the base of 
middle and hind legs, and on anterior side of hind tibiae; abdomen highly polished, 
weakly punctured, bluish green and steel blue, without hair-bands ; hair at apex 
black ; venter with fringes of white hair. 
King George’s Sound, W.A. Falls near to P. plumosus Sm. and P. carinatus 
Sm., but easily known by the bright-red thoracic hair. It is the species which Friese 
(1924) described as P. fervidus, but that name is preoccupied. 
Paracolletes rebellis Cockerell. 
Male : Jindebyne, N.S.W., 3,000 ft., March 1889 {Helms). 
Paracolletes carinatus Smith. 
Female : Mt. Tambourine, 1923 (IF. H. Davidson). Male : Maria Island, 
6-2-18 ( G . H. Hardy). 
Paracolletes bicristatus n. sp. 
Female. Length about 8 mm. ; robust, head black, with front and sides 
of face dark green ; thorax black, with the mesothorax entirely dull, very dark blue 
or blue-black : scutellum black, with two shining areas on disc ; metathorax dull 
at base, but the very obtuse transverse ridge of enclosure shining and appearing 
very faintly metallic ; legs black, the tarsi slightly reddish, the hind basitarsi broad, 
pale ferruginous, dusky apically, with short hair on inner side, which seen from 
behind shines silvery white ; abdomen somewhat shining, not evidently punctured, 
faintly greenish. Mandibles black, faintly reddened apically ; antenna* black ; 
clypeus polished and sparsely punctured ; hair of head very inconspicuous, erect 
and fuscous on vertex ; mesothorax with short very inconspicuous black hair, 
anteriorly with white, only visible on lateral view ; tubercles with a large dense 
tuft of yellowish -white hail’ : at each side of scutellum is a dense very conspicuous 
band of pale-fulvous tomentum, these bands converging caudad ; pleura with thin 
white hair ; teguke black ; wings hyaline, rosy- iridescent, stigma large, dark reddish, 
nervures fuscous ; basal nervure arched, not quite reaching the oblique nervulus ; 
second cubital cell much broadened below, receiving recurrent nervure at or a little 
before middle ; marginal cell long and pointed ; hind femora with a very large curled 
■white scopa ; hind tibiae with hair on outer side dark fuscous, on inner w hite ; abdomen 
without bands, hair at apex black, rather scanty ; venter with a white scopa. 
Two females : Tooloom, N.S.W., Jan. 1926 {H. Hacker). One has collected 
much orange pollen. A very distinct species, easily know 7 n by the bands of pale- 
fulvous or whitish hair on each side of scutellum. In the cotvpe the tufts of hair 
on tubercles and sides of scutellum may be described as white. 
