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metathorax long, shining, the basal half obscurely sculptured ; extreme sides of 

 metathorax densely hairy ; mesopleura very hairy ; tegulse rufopiceous ; wings 

 dusky, darker at apex, stigma and nervures rather dilute sepia ; outer recurrent and 

 intercubitus weakened ; second submarginal cell broad below, narrowed above, the 

 recurrent nervure joining its extreme apex ; legs black, hind legs with pale hair, that 

 on tibiae shining silvery, hind basitarsi with a bright red tuft at apex ; abdomen 

 shining, first two segments with extremely minute punctures ; venter extremely 

 hairy. 



Ebor, 2-1-14 (.4. J. Turner). In Meyer's table runs to P. insignis Meyer, from 

 Tasmania, but the sculpture is very different. It is also related to P. arciferns Ckll. 

 and P. leptospermi Ckll. P. arciferus differs at once by the area of metathorax and 

 colour of pubescence, and the same may be said of leptosjjermi. 



Parasphecodes annexus n. sp. 



Female. Length a little over 7 mm., robust, head and thorax black, abdomen 

 broad, chestnut-red, first segment with a very broadly triangular black area, and 

 hind margins of all the segments strongly dusky ; hair of head and thorax thin, shghtly 

 ochreous dorsally, white on cheeks and pleura ; clypeus shining, with sparse 

 punctures, and no median groove ; antennae black ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 shining, with small punctures, well separated on disc ; area of metathorax semi- 

 lunar with no raised rim, shining, finely rugose, subplicate basally ; tegulae dark- 

 reddish, anterior margin hyaline ; wings hyaline ; stigma and nervures dark-brown, 

 outer recurrent and intercubitus extremely weak ; second submarginal cell about 

 square, about as broad above as third ; first recurrent nervure joining base of third 

 submarginal, as in P. sulthica Sm., legs black, hair on hind legs pale, on hind tibiae 

 silvery, with a green stripe posteriorly ; hind basitarsi with a bright red apical 

 brush : abdomen without conspicuous punctures, first two segments excessively 

 minutely punctured ; venter hairy. 



Adaminaby, N.S.W., 19-10-18 (.4. J. Turner). In many ways similar to 

 P. melbournensis Ckll., but much smaller. 



HALICTUS Latr. 



The following table separates a series of species in Avhich the mesothorax 

 is metallic, green or blue. Up to the present, thirty-two species of this type have 

 been described from Austraha (including Tasmania). Some additions are given 

 below : — 



Males 



Females 



Clypeus largely yellow, mandibles yellow 

 Clypeus without yellow . . 

 Hind tibiae light red 

 Hind tibiae black, red at extreme ends. (Caloundra, 20-1-1(1) 



1. 

 3. 



jjurnongensis Ckll. 



oiivinus n. sp. 

 kesteveni CklL 



