AUSTBALIAN BEES IN THE QUEENSLAND MrSErM.—COCKEBELL. 259' 



Parasphecodes longmani n. sp. 

 Male. Length about or nearly 8- mm, rather slender, head and thorax black, 

 abdomen dusky-red, with a broad black stain on middle of first two segments, and 

 segments beyond the third wholly black ; hair of head and thorax thin, brownish 

 on face, front, vertex, and thoracic dorsum, pure white on cheeks and mesopleura ; 

 head broad, orbits strongly converging below ; broad band on clypeus, with a 

 cuneiform upward extension, labrum and greater part of mandibles yellow ; antennae 

 black, the flagellum moniliform, not especially long (length somewhat over 4 mm.) ; 

 front entirely dull, but a shining space in front of middle ocellus ; mesothorax and 

 scutellum dull, slightly glistening on disc, very minutely and densely punctured, 

 scutellum bigibbous, without special tomentum ; area of metathorax poorly defined, 

 with fine vermiform rugae ; tegulae bright yellowish-ferruginous ; wings hyaline, 

 slightly greyish ; stigma dark reddish, nervures fuscous ; second submarginal cell 

 nearly square ; first recurrent nervure entering base of third submarginal, as in 

 P. sulthica Smith ; femora black, with red knees ; anterior and middle tibiae and all 

 the tarsi red ; hind tibiae black with broadly red base and a Httle red at apex ; 

 abdomen above with very scanty short hair, venter with much white hair, second 

 ventral segment simple. 



Caloundra, 20-1-16 {H. Hacker). Rather like P. minimus Meyer, but larger, 

 with dark antennae, &c. The tubercles are red. Dedicated to the Director of the 

 Queensland Museum. 



Parasphecodes subrussatus n. sp. 



Male. Length about or a little over 8 mm., not very slender, the abdomen 

 broad at base, almost parallel-sided but slightly widening to the fourth segment ; 

 head and thorax black, with rather long dull white hair, faintly brownish dorsally ; 

 first abdominal segment black, broadly red apically, with a further red extension 

 on sides ; second segment red, with a transverse median black mark ; third red, 

 with a black spot at each extreme side toward base ; fourth and following segments 

 black, but the fourth red beneath, with a black median stain ; at least lower half 

 of clypeus shining lemon yellow, with a small median extension ; labrum black ; 

 mandibles black, dark-reddish apically ; flagellum long, clear ferruginous beneath ; 

 mesothorax and scutellum dullish, somewhat shining on disc, extremely finely 

 punctured, scutellum bigibbous ; area of metathorax poorlj^ defined, with fine rugae ; 

 tegulae black ; tubercles black ; wings hyaline, slightly greyish, stigma and nervures 

 ferruginous ; second submarginal cell much higher than long, receiving recurrent 

 nervure well before its end ; legs black ; abdomen shining, the red colour bright ; 

 second ventral segment simple. 



Kosciusko, 26-1-14 (^4. J. Turner). Very distinct by the marking of the 

 abdomen, combined with the black tegulae and legs. 



