260 MKMOms OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Parasphecodes paramelaenus n. sp. 

 Female. Looks like P. cervicalis, with which I had mixed it, l)ut it is a little 

 smaller, with anterior wing about 7 mm. ; face narrower, clypeus without a distinct 

 median groove ; mesothorax entirely dull black, not at all glaucous, with excessively 

 dense and minute punctures ; scutellum densely and minutely punctured ; area of 

 metathorax long, with no raised rim, its surface obscurely rugose, except apically ; 

 wino-s paler and strongly reddish ; first recurrent meeting second intercubitus ; 

 outer side of third submarginal cell without a double curve ; first two abdominal 

 segments very finely, closely, and regularly punctured, the depressed apical part 

 of second segment, and first to extreme apex, punctured ; second ventral segment 

 hairv. but without a distinct prominence. The apical part of abdomen has short 

 black hair. 



National Park, Queensland, Dec, 1919 {H. Hacker). P. afronitens Ckll. is very 

 closely allied, but distinguished by the colour of wings and sculpture of abdomen. 



Parasphecodes lichatinus n. sp. 

 Female. Length about or nearly 10 mm., anterior wing nearly 8 ; robust, 

 head and thorax black ; abdomen with the first three segments deep chestnut-red, 

 the first with a very broad blackened area across the middle, the third with the hind 

 margin blackened ; fourth and following segments black ; hair of head and thorax 

 dull whitish, thin on thorax above ; clypeus shining, with sparse strong punctures ; 

 flagellum red beneath and at extreme tip, the colour almost brick red ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum densely and distinctly punctured, but glistening between the punctures ; 

 scutellum slightly bituberculate ; area of metathorax with coarse irregular rugae, 

 more or less broken up, and a sharp hind margin ; tegulse dark red ; wings reddish, 

 strongly dusky in marginal cell, stigma and nervures piceous, stigma unusually 

 narrow ; second submarginal cell large, about square, about as broad above as third, 

 receiving first recurrent nervure almost at apex ; legs black, with coarse dark hair 

 on outer side of hind tibiae and tarsi ; abdomen shining, finely punctured, apical 

 part with black hair dorsally. 



Ararat, Victoria {H. W. Davey). Very close to P. lichafus Smith, from Western 

 Australia, but with darker wings, and I think separable. 



Parasphecodes hirfciventris n. sp. 

 Female. Length about 10 mm., robust, head and thorax black, their pubescence 

 fulvous dorsally ; abdomen with the first three segments dark red, the others black ; 

 first segment with a large T-shaped black mark, third with a transverse dusky cloud 

 in middle, and hind margin darkened ; an even narrow line of white cilia overlapping 

 extreme base of third segment ; tongue Cuneiform, short and broad ; clypeus 

 shining, with scattered punctures ; antennae entirely black, scape very long ; meso- 

 thorax and scutellum dull, extremely densely and minutely punctured ; area of 



