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punctured, hind margins of segments narrowly reddish ; no hair-bands, and very 
little hair, fourth tergite with a very thin fringe of pale hairs ; apex with a small 
tuft of reddish -black hair ; ventral fringes white ; at each side of first tergite is a 
little raised boss. 
Two females : Type Perth, W.A. (J. Clark) ; the other Swan R. (J. S. Clark). 
It may be compared with P. sigillatus CklL but is very distinct by the lack of broad 
hyaline margins to the tergites, dark hair at apex of abdomen, and red tegulee. It 
differs at once from P. scUulus Ckll. by the black anterior legs. The dull front, easily 
separates it from P. nigritulus Ckll. Among the Smith species it seems nearest to 
P. cinereus , but not very closely allied. 
Paracoiletes rudis Cockerell. 
One female : Swan River, W.A. (J. S. Clark). P. rudis was described in 1906 
from a female from Swan River, received by the British Museum in 1869. It is a 
species with much the aspect of P. advena (Smith), but remarkable for the entirely 
dull surface of the thorax above. 
Paracoiletes nigroclypeatus hardyi n. subsp. 
Female. Anterior wing 7*6 mm. Agrees in most respects with P. nigroclypeatus 
Ckll. (from Victoria), but differs especially by the black abdomen, with a different 
steel-blue band on each segment before the marginal depression. The clypeus is 
shining, with scattered irregular punctures, wholly black, but the front and sides of 
face are strong blue-green. The mesothorax has the disc shining, dark blue-green, 
and the polished sparsely punctured seutellum, with no median depression, is very 
decidedly green. Thus the insect presents the unusual condition of having the head 
and thorax more strongly metallic than the abdomen. Flagellum red beneath, 
especially toward the end : hair of face thin, a sort of dull pale yellowish (not white 
as in the typical race), of vertex black : disc of mesothorax and seutellum with 
short sooty hair, sides of thorax with dull greyish-white hair ; teguloe small, bright 
clear rufous ; wings dusky ; basal nervure meeting nervulus ; second cubital cell 
receiving first recurrent at middle ; third cubital receiving second recurrent almost 
at end : legs obscure reddish ; apex of abdomen with black hair. 
One female : Perth, W.A. (G. H. Hardy , 169). It is not surprising to find 
much specific and subspecific endemism in the bees of Western Australia, as according 
to Emily H. Pelloe, in her book on “Wild Flowers of Western Australia” (1921), 
there are more than 3,000 species of flowering plants peculiar to that region. 
Paracoiletes obscurus Smith. 
Female : Russell Falls, National Park, Tasmania, 11-1-25. This agrees in 
venation with Smith’s type, which I examined. It also has the characteristic dusky 
wings. The abdomen shows vague but quite perceptible purplish and greenish 
tints ; Smith found the abdomen of the female black, only that of the male obscurely 
metallic. The clypeus is very coarsely punctured, The abdominal hair-bands are 
thin ; not relatively white and conspicuous as in P. advena Sm. P. subviridis Ckll. 
is smaller and evidently different. 
It is possible that Smith wrongly associated the sexes of P. obscurus , and 
that the present female belongs with his male ; but at present we have no adequate 
grounds for such an assumption. 
