240 HYMENOPTERA. 



field, but nowhere dark ; stigma and nervures amber-color, first r. n. 

 meeting second t. c. ; second s. m. broad, but third much larger. 

 Face covered with dull pale ochreous hair ; eyes strongly converging 

 below, inner orbits with a double curve ; tongue and maxillary palpi 

 as in P. schomburgki ; clypeus with the lower half light yellow, send- 

 ing a median projection upwards ; scape dark, extremely short ; flagel- 

 lum very long, at least S\ m.m., strongly crenulate beneath, its lower 

 side entirely red except the very short first joint, the slightly longer 

 second joint clear red, contrasting; front, vertex, mesothorax and 

 scutellum dull, densely granular-punctate ; area of metathorax entirely 

 covered with coarse ruga? ; apical truncation rather small, hairy, ill- 

 defined ; tegulae rather large, apricot-color; first two abdominal seg- 

 ments finely punctured, as in P. schomburgki. 



The difference in venation, and the marked difference in 

 the structure of the metathorax seem to indicate that this 

 cannot be the male of schomburgki. It seems nearest to the 

 Tasmanian P. altichus Sm., but differs by the excessively 

 fine dense punctuation of the mesothorax, the poorly defined 

 metathoracic truncation, the red tibiae, etc. 



Had.— Adelaide (Schomburgk) . Berlin Museum, 22114. 



Paraspliecod.es frog , g - atti Ckll. 



Victoria (C. F. ; Turner collection). British Museum. 



Paraspliecod.es vuliieratus sp. nov. 



o". Length hardly 9 mm. .; abdomen much smaller and less robust 

 than in P. froggatti ; head and thorax black, with grayish-white hair, 

 pale fuscous on vertex, scutellum, and slightly on hind part of meso- 

 thorax ; dense hair of face grayish-white ; clypeus produced, its lower 

 half pale yellow, with the usual upward projection; antennae appear- 

 ing entirely black (flagellum broken in middle), but close inspection 

 shows a small red spot on third joint, and a reddish suffusion on under 

 side of flagellum beyond ; ocelli in more of a triangle than in P. sextus; 

 front vertex, mesothorax and scutellum uniformly exceedingly minutely 

 granular punctate ; area of metathorax semi-lunar, with longitudinal 

 wrinkled rugae extending to posterior margin ; posterior truncation as 

 in P. sextus ; tegulse piceous with the outer part broadly pale ferrugin- 

 ous ; wings moderately dusky, the apex a little darker, stigma and 

 nervures very dark reddish-brown; outer nervures strong; first r. n. 

 meeting second t. c. ; second s. m. higher than broad ; legs slender, 

 moderately hairy, shining black, the knees, anterior tibia in front and 

 middle tibia at apex, red ; abdomen with the basal part finely punc- 

 tured ; first three segments bright chestnut-red, the others black, ex- 

 cept a red spot on middle of fourth. 



