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Known from all other species by the entirely red meta- 

 thorax and clouded wings. 



Hab. — Cairns, Queensland, "Kur., 1. 02" {Turner). Brit- 

 ish Museum. 



Parasphecodes schomburgki sp. nov. 



9. Length about 8^ mm., robust ; head and thorax black, with gray- 

 ish white hair (no black); abdomen rich chestnut-red, the fourth segt 

 ment except base and the apex, dark but not black ; first two segments 

 finely punctured ; wings hyaline, slightly reddish, stigma and ner- 

 vures light ferruginous, first r. n. entering second s. m. a short dis- 

 tance before end, second s. m. about as broad as high ; second r. n. 

 and third t. c. weakened. Tongue short, pointed, apparently broader 

 than long: joints 3 to 5 of maxillary palpi broad and oblique at apex, 

 with the apical corner somewhat produced ; mandibles dark reddish 

 except at base ; face broad ; clypeus and supraclypeal area micro- 

 scopically sculptured, and with large well separated punctures ; sides 

 of face minutely wrinkled and very densely punctured ; front extremely 

 densely punctured; extreme base of scape minutely closely punctured, 

 but the shaft microscopically lineolate ; antennas entirely ferruginous, 

 the scape dusky, the flagellar sutures dusky above; mesothorax dull, 

 minutely granular-punctate ; area of metathorax rather coarsely longi- 

 tudinally wrinkled, nearly its apical third smooth ; apical truncation 

 of metathorax heart-shaped, well-defined, smooth and shining, with a 

 deep median sulcus ; pleura rough ; tegulse shining chestnut-red ; legs 

 dark ferruginous, with pale yellowish hair; hind spur simple; ab- 

 domen moderately hairy. 



In my table of Parasphecodes (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept., 

 1904) this runs nearest to P. h'thusca, but is separated by the 

 character of the metathorax. 



Hab. — Adelaide, Australia {Schomburgk) . Berlin Museum, 

 22122. This locality seems to be rich in Parasphecodes, hav- 

 ing already furnished P. hilactus Sm., P. adelaidcz Ckll., P. 

 loweri Ckll. and P. tepperi Ckll. 



Parasphecodes sextus sp. nov. 



cf. Length about 9 mm. ; head and thorax black, with pale hair, 

 faintly tinged with ochreous above ; abdomen rather robust, the first 

 three segments a very fine chestnut-red, without dark markings, the 

 fourth and following ones black ; fourth ventral with a large red mark ; 

 femora reddish-black, the knees ferruginous ; anterior and middle 

 tibia? and tarsi clear red, with pale golden hair; hind tibiae and tarsi 

 red, but much darker; wings ample, hyaline, a little dusky in apical 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC.XXXVI. (30*) AUGUST, 1910. 



