PARAOUS. 31 



that the ii[)ical sections of 4th and oth veins are undulating, not 

 parallel witii \ving-iuar;i;;in ; anterior cross-vein distinctly before 

 middle of discal cell. 



Range. World-wide. 



Life-hisiori/ not known, but the larvae are reputed to feed on 

 Aphides occurring on Centaarea and/Souc/i^fs, according to Konilani; 

 and Yerrall, from wlioni this note is culled, suspects them of being 

 in some wav connected with the small aculeate 1 ! ynienoptera, as 

 Ualictus. Dr. de .Meijere has noted the Oriental species. 



Stoutly built, rather smiU dark tiies, often with pale markings 

 on face, abdomen and legs. 



Table of Specks. 



1. Scutellum conspicuously serrate ou hind 



margin serratus, Fabi., p. 31. 



Scutellum not serrate 2. 



2. Abdomen wholly black* . 3. 



Abdomen yellowish, reddish or with a 



broad pale band 4. 



3. Face with a distinct medinn black stripe 



tVom below antvnnae to mouth-opening . . indicns, Bruii., p. 33. 

 F;ice without stripe, at most a slight exten- 

 sion upwards of the black colour of the 

 mouth-border atratus, de Meij., p. 33. 



4. Scutellum wholly black rttjiventris, Bruu.,p. 34. 



Scutellum with hind margin more or less 



broadly pale 5. 



o. Face without stripe ; legs all yellow except 



a narroM' black band on hind femora .... luteiis, Brun., p. 3o. 

 Face with black stripe (sometimes reduced 

 in cJ ) ; legs with about basal half of 

 femora black hicolor, Fabr., p. 35. 



24. Paragus serratus, Fahr. (PI. I, figs. 6, 7.) 



Mulio serraiun, Fabricius, Syst. Antliat. p. 18G (180o). 



Paragus serratus, Wiedemann, Aussereur. Zweifl. ii, p. 88 (1830) ; 



Brnnetti, Bee. lud. Mas. ii, ]>. 52 (1908), xi, p. 201 (lOio); de 



.Meijere, Tijd. v. Ent. Ii, p. 284 (1908). 



S $. Head: eyes in (S absolutely contiguous for a short but 

 appreciable distance ; bare, except for three longitudinal, about 

 equidistant, stripes of whitish pubescence ; vertical triangle 

 elongate, ixearly three times as long as the distance of ocular 

 contiguity, shining black or blue-black with short black hairs; 

 ocelli placed well away from vertex ; anterior part of fi-ons for a 

 short space with yello\sish-grey dust ; frontal triangle very small, 

 and, with the whole face, orange- yellow with short sparse whili>li 

 pubescence; uiouth-opening large, brown ; a narrow brownish-bhu-k 



* Some European specimens of P. hicolor Imve the abdomen wholly black, so 

 tliat some care is required in identifying those species. 



