82 Descriptions of New Exotic Aculeate Hymenoptera. 
seen. I do not remember if it folds its wings, as when it came 
into my possession I was too young an Entomologist to know tlie 
value of that character, to observe it before I set the insect. 
Species 1 . Parag. decipiens, Shuck. PI. VIII. fig. 3. 
Niger, opacus, abdomine sordide ochraceo. £ . 
Length 9 lines. Expansion of the wings 14 lines. 
Black, opaque ; with the head and thorax delicately shagreened ; 
two minute yellow spots between the base of the antennae. A nar- 
row yellow line on each side of the anterior edge of the prothorax, 
and another spot of the same colour beneath the base of the wings, 
which are subhyaline, with a dark cloud covering their marginal, 
submarginal, and discoidal cells, and their nervures black ; the 
legs black, and, the posterior ones especially, covered externally and 
internally with a close silky down, which gives them the appearance 
of having a white streak. 
The abdomen of a dirty ochre yellow, which was probably ori- 
ginally of a bright tint ; the extreme base of the first segment 
black, which descends in the centre to its margin. £. 
From New South Wales. 
In my own Collection. 
Obs. — If my suspicions be correct as to the social habits of this 
insect, it is probably a neuter. 
