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under side, and this involves holding the head of the pin. The Nicholson specimens 
from W. Australia are admirably mounted, but taking Australian bees as they come, 
from old or new lots, they are very often hard to handle. 
Paracolletes microdontus n. sp. 
Female. Length a little over 10 mm. ; black, with no metallic tints anywhere ; 
mandibles black, with a faint reddish tint subapicallv ; teg uke very dark reddish ; 
legs black. Head broad, but facial quadrangle longer than wide : clypeuS moderately 
convex, shining, with strong not very dense punctures, the disc somewhat flattened: 
lower margin and corners of clypeus, and sides of face, with silvery white hair ; front 
and cheeks with white hair, but vertex with long black hair : antennae black, the 
flagellum reddened beneath apically ; mesothorax and scutellum shining on disc, 
with sparse small punctures ; scutellum with no trace of a median sulcus (which 
is present in P. tubwculaUls Okll.), its posterior part dull: postscutellum with a 
small but distinct tubercle ; area of metathorax dull, faintly shining on ridge, over- 
lapped by long pale hairs ; thorax above with short grey and black hair ; much 
black on scutellum, and a broad black band across anterior part of mesothorax : 
tubercles with white hair : wings hyaline, slightly dusky: stigma dark reddish, 
very small and narrow, but distinct : nervures dark ; basal nervine meeting nerviilus ; 
second cubital cell broad, receiving recurrent nervine a little before middle : third 
cubital very long, much extended below', receiving second recurrent some distance 
from end : scopa of hind tibiae very long, grey on outer side, white on inner ; abdomen 
without bands, dullish, the punctures excessively minute ; first three segments 
broadly but thinly clothed basally with fine white pile, giving the basal halves of 
second and third segments (when extended) a grey appearance, contrasting with 
the black beyond ; hind margins of segments broadly dark brownish, but the colour 
is too dark to give a banded effect : hair at apex of abdomen black : fourth ventral 
segment with much white hair, fifth with a fringe of black. 
Two females from Perth, W.A. (J. Clark). The clypeus is totally different 
from that of P. incanescens Ckll. The dentate postscutellum and other characters 
separate it from P. obscurus Smith. 
Paracolletes semilucens n. sp. 
Female. Length about 8*5 mm. : black, small and rather slender, with rather 
the aspect of a male ; head broad : mandibles black, faintly reddish at tip ; clypeus 
convex, sparsely but distinctly punctured, the lower half shining, the upper half 
dull, but extreme upper edge shining : supraclypeal area dull, without evident 
punctures ; sides of face with thin white hair, and no black ; antennae black, 
flagellum obscurely reddish below' : front and vertex entirely dull : vertex with 
some long black hail* : thorax with thin white hair at sides and behind, dorsally 
with very scanty fuscous hair ; mesothorax dull, not evidently punctate, the 
posterior disc more shining : scutellum somewhat shining, hardly punctured, 
depressed in middle ; base of metathorax with upper face large, shining, no transverse 
grooves or acute keel ; teguke chestnut red ; wings brownish hyaline, stigma and 
nervures dark reddish : stigma large ; basal nervure falling a considerable distance 
short of nervulus ; second cubital cell broadened below, receiving recurrent nervure 
distinctly beyond middle : third cubital elongated, receiving second recurrent some 
distance before end ; legs black, scopa of hind tibiae not very large, wiiite, stained 
with fuscous posteriorly ; spurs clear red ; hair on inner side of hind tarsi appearing 
white in some lights, but pale orange in others ; abdomen dullish, not evidently 
