hymenoptera. 



2. Paragia tricolor. B.M. 



Paragia tricolor, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 2nd ser. i. 41. 



t. 5. f. I ^ (nee $ ). 

 Paragia Smithii, Sauss. Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 55. 3. t. 2. f, 1 $ . 



Hab. Australia (Adelaide). 



J 3. Paragia Saussurii. B.M. 



Paragia tricolor, Sauss. Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 54. 2 $ (nee Smith). 

 Hab. Australia (Pertli). 



4. Paragia Odyneroides. B.M. 

 Paragia Odyneroides, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 2nd ser. i. 



42. t. 5. f. 2 ? . 



Sauss. Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 56. 4. 



Hab. Australia (Hunter River). 



5. Paragia Australis. 



Paragia Australis, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 3rd ser. i. Bull, 

 p. 21 ; Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 5/. 5 <? $ . t. 2. f. 2 c? . 



Hab. Tasmania. (Coll. M. Saussure.) 



6. Paragia bicolor. 



Paragia bicolor, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 3rd ser. i. Bull. p. 21 

 (1853) ; Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 58. 6. t. 2. f. 3 <? . 



Hab. Australia. (Paris Museum.) 



7. Paragia bidens. B.M. 

 Paragia bidens, Sauss. Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 59. 7 S ? • 



Hab. Adelaide. 



The male only in the Collection of the British Museum. 



. Paragia pr^edator. B.M. 



Paragia prsedator, Sauss. Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 59. 8 ? . 

 Hab. Australia. 



9. Paragia pictifrons. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. — Black : the head and thorax 

 closely covered with large confluent punctures; the anterior 

 margin of the cly))eus truncated, and having a minute tubercle 

 in the middle ; the mandibles obtusely subdentate at their apex ; 

 the inner orbit of the eyes notched, the notch orange, and a 

 waved orange band crossing the forehead between the notches ; 

 an orange line on the lateral margins of the clypeus ; the scape 



