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This may be the male of some described female, but if so, 

 I cannot guess which. It seems nearest to P. hilactus Sm., 

 but differs conspicuously in the color of the legs. 



Hub. — Victoria (C. F. ; Turner collection). British Mu- 

 seum). 



Paraspbecod.es cirriferus sp. nov. 



9. Length about 12^ mm., anterior wing 8; head and thorax 

 black, with pale hair, which is strongly ochreous-tinted on head and 

 thorax above, the dense fringe of the tubercles is also ochreous ; head 

 broad; clypeus broad, little produced, shining, with a median groove, 

 and sparse very strong punctures, it is also wholly black ; from beneath 

 margin of clypeus projects a long fringe of golden hairs; mandibles 

 bidentate, with a dark red band ; front densely granular-punctate ; 

 ocelli forming a curved line rather than a triangle ; scape long ; flagel- 

 lum, except at base, very obscurely reddish beneath ; mesothorax with 

 the median and parapsidal grooves distinct, everywhere very densely 

 rugosopunctate except the disc beyond the middle, where the punc- 

 tures are larger and evidently separated, showing the shining surface 

 between (this peculiarity is very distinctive of the species) ; pleura 

 transversely, more or less obliquely, striate, the striae on the posterior 

 part coarser and stronger ; area of mesothorax coarsely, very irregu- 

 larly wrinkled, with a strong posterior margin ; posterior truncation 

 heart-shaped, well-defined, smooth and brilliantly shining, with a 

 strong median sulcus, which is beset with reddish hairs, increasing to 

 form a conspicuous tuft, extending on either side, at its upper end ; 

 tegulae shining rufous, dark basally ; wings strongly reddish-dusky, the 

 nervures fuscous, the large stigma redder; seconds, m. broad, first 

 r. n. joining second t. c. ; b. n. falling very little short of t. m. ; legs 

 with pale hair, ferruginous on inner side of tarsi ; hind trochanter and 

 femora with a large plumose scopa ; hind tibiae very hairy ; hind spur 

 ciliate ; abdomen dark chestnut-red, the fourth and following segments 

 black, and from the third on with much coarse black hair ; basal part 

 punctured much as usual, but not uniformily. 



Known by its large size, dusky wings, tufted truncation of 

 metathorax, etc. It seems nearest to P. tilachus Sm., but 

 that is smaller, with the clypeus produced. In P. tilachus the 

 second r. n. and third t. c. are much weakened, in cirriferus 

 they are slender, but still dark and conspicuous. 



Hab. — Victoria, Australia (C. F.; February, 1901 ; Turner 

 collection). British Museum. 



Two large rufofulvous mites are attached to the meta- 

 thorax. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. (31) AUGUST, 1910. 



