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Paracolletes advena worsfoldi (Cockerell). 
A female from King George’s Sound is evidently P. worsfoldi Ckll., described 
from a single female in the British Museum. It is however only a race of P. advena 
(Smith), differing by the distinctly more shining mesothorax, and details of the 
venation. The basal nervure meets the nervulus ; the first recurrent nervure is 
abruptly bent some distance from its end. and joins the second cubital cell well before 
the middle. In P. advena from Victoria the basal nervure falls a little short of the 
nervulus, and the broad second cubital cell receives the recurrent nervure in middle 
or a little beyond. In Brisbane P. advena the basal nervure is conspicuously short 
of the nervulus. and the first recurrent reaches second cubital a little before the 
middle. Neither Brisbane nor Victoria bees show the abrupt bend in the recurrent. 
In Smith’s type of P. advena the recurrent joins second cubital a little before middle, 
and the basal nervure falls short of nervulus. 
Paracolletes nigrocinctus Cockerell. 
Koj arena, near Geraldton, W.A., Sept. 6, 1926 ( Nicholson ). One female, 
seven males. A specimen will be sent to the Queensland Museum. P. ienuicinetus 
Ckll. and P. nigrocinctus Ckll. are the sexes of one species. 
Paracolletes melbournensis clarki n. subsp. 
Female. Length about 11 mm. ; clypeus highly polished, with scattered 
though distinct punctures ; vertex with sooty or grey hair ; thorax above with 
rather pale grey hair ; black on disc of mesothorax and scut ell um : scutellum 
anteriorly smooth and lilac-tinted ; pleura with dull- white hair, that in region of 
tubercles sooty ; tegulse very dark : wings strongly brownish ; basal nervure meeting 
nervulus ; second cubital cell receiving recurrent nervure about middle : abdomen 
olive green, without the strong punctures of P. sexmaeulatus Ckll 
Perth, W.A. (J. Clark). 
Paracolletes plumosus Smith. 
Female : Sydney, N.SAV. (Froggatt, 191). 
Paracolletes eucalypti Cockerell. 
This was described from a male taken at Healesvillo. V. The female before 
me comes from Beaconsfield, V ictoria ( F . E. Wilson), and while it differs from the 
male in the entirely black legs, and the basal nervure almost meeting the nervulus, 
I am confident that it belongs here. It is smaller than P. plumosus Sm., and is 
especially distinguished by the dullish minutely sculptured surface of the bluish- 
green abdomen. Under the compound microscope this surface shows fine transverse 
I ineolation and excessively minute punctures. The anterior wings are 7 mm. long. 
The hair at sides of thorax is partly black and partly dull white. Hair of apex of 
abdomen black ; first three ventral fringes white, fourth sooty. Hind tibia with hair 
black on outer side, white on inner. Dorsum of thorax with black hair, but white 
anteriorly. This agrees so nearly with what the female of P. eucalypti ought to be, 
that we are not. entitled to assume the. existence of another, extremely closely 
related, species. 
May I venture to suggest, in connection with this specimen, that when bees 
are pinned with short pins, and placed very high up, it is extremely difficult to handle 
them without damage ? They cannot be properly examined without looking at the 
