306 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
but pleura entirely black; tegula bright apricot colour; anterior 
femora and tibiew bright red, but their tarsi dark; abdomen black, 
wholly without blue tints; wings very dark ; area of metathorax with 
coarse ridges. 
Prosopis perhumilis, Ckll., var. a. 
240 ¢ (2833). Bridport, Oct. 26th-30th, 1918. Two. 
g. Length about 44 mm.; supraclypeal mark very small; at 
least half of hind basitarsi light. 
Parasphecodes rhodopterus, n. sp. 
243 ¢ (2825). Launceston, Jan. 18th, 1914. 
?. Length about 8mm.; rather robust ; head, thorax, legs and 
antenne black, the last joint of flagellum very faintly reddish ; 
tegule rufotestaceous, dark at base; wings very strongly reddened, 
stigma and nervures dull red; abdomen chestnut-red, not very bright, 
first segment with a large black spot on basal middle, and a trans- 
verse very broad-triangular discal mark, segments beyond the third 
suffused with blackish. Clypeus with strong punctures; mesothorax 
and scutellum extremely densely and finely punctured; area of 
metathorax semilunar, with rather fine regular longitudinal ridges ; 
posterior truncation without prominent upper corners; first r. n. 
joining the rather narrow second s. m. at apex; outer r. n. and t.c. 
thin but dark; hair on inner side of middle tarsi bright orange- 
ferruginous, but on inner side of hind tarsi paler ; outer side of hind 
tibize and basitarsi with fuscous hair; first two abdominal segments 
dull, with extremely fine punctures all over; third shining, with 
scattered irregular very fine punctures; third segment and beyond 
with fuscous hair, only clearly seen in side view. 
Allied to P. taluchis, Sm., but flagellum and legs black. 
Parasphecodes rufotegularis, n. sp. 
235 c (2556). Launceston, Jan. 25th, 1914. 
g. Length 8:5 mm.; black, with the broad apical margin of 
first abdominal segment (extending basad at sides), and the second 
and third segments entirely, very bright ferruginous; labrum, man- 
dibles and about apical half of clypeus (with an angular median 
projection into the black) light yellow; antennex very long, black ; 
teguiz bright ferruginous; wings slightly dusky, nervures and stigma 
fuscous ; knees, anterior tibize (except a blackish mark on outer side), 
middle tibize at apex, and all the tarsi, ferruginous. Head and thorax 
with greyish white hair; front dull; mesothorax and scutellum 
very finely punctured, the scutellum and posterior part of mesothorax 
shining; area of metathorax rather large, semilunar, glistening, with 
quite irregular ruge producing a subreticulate effect; first r. n. 
meeting second t. c.; abdomen with very fine punctures. This is 
too different from the last to be its male, the metathorax especially 
being quite different. There is some resemblance to P. stuchila, Sm., 
but that has the area of metathorax rugose-granular, and the tibiz 
ferruginous. 
