118 MEMOmS OF THE QUEENSLAND MVSEVM. 



with broad black bands, not reaching extreme sides ; labrum black ; mandibles clear 

 red, with the aj)ex dark ; scape wth a red spot at extreme base ; tlagellum obicure 

 reddish beneath, except at base ; mesothorax appearing granidar, median groove 

 distinct ; area of metathorax with very fine plicae ; tegulse bright nifo-tcstaceous ; wngs 

 sUghtly dusky. Stigma large and dark ; anterior knees, tibiie. and tarsi light ferrugin- 

 ous ; middle and hind knees, middle tibia> in front, hind tibia? at base and apex, and 

 middle and hind tarsi, rather red ; sides of apical part of abdomen with long hairs. 



?. var. a. Brisbane, Sept. 10, 1915. (202.) 



Abdomen reddish black, the broad ba.se and sides of second segment, extreme 

 sides of third, and fourth except middle, red. 



$. var. b. Brisbane, Sept. 1, 1914, at flowers of Leptospermum. (206.) 



Mesothorax yellowish green, the median sulcus scarcely developed ; abdomen 

 even darker than in var. a. 



Related to //. sphecodoides Smith, of which it may be a race ; but it tliffers by 

 the darker abdomen and tarsi. 



Parasphecodes bribiensis Ckll. Stradbroke Island, Oct. 20, liill. (207.) 



The specimen has the abdomen contracted, and so looks quite difl'ercnt from 

 the type at hrst glance. A characteristic feature of the species is the pair of elevated 

 bosses on each of the first two abdominal segments. 



Parasphecodes insculptus n.sp. Tambourine ^Itn., Dec. 2S, 1011, (190.) 



?. Length 8 mm. or a little more ; black, with dusky wings ; anterior tibiae 

 reddish in front, tarsi reddened apieally ; mandibles red .subapically ; clypeus polished 

 and shining, with sparse small punctures ; supraclypeal area large and triangular, 

 smooth but glaucous, with scattered minute punctures ; flagellum obscure reddish 

 beneath ; mesothorax smooth and very feebly and remotely iiunctured, but glaucous ; 

 scutellum like mesothorax ; area of metathorax dull and without sculjitun; ; tegulje 

 bright ferruginous, with a large dusky cloud ; stigma and ucivurcs dark reddish 

 fuscous ; abdomen with extremely minute punctures ; a. narrow band of white 

 tomentum at extreme base of .second and third segments. 



Related to P. ploralar Ckll,, hut rcNulily distinguished li\' the dullish abdomen, 

 with closely and very minutely punctured second segment. l<'roni P. alronilcns Ckll. 

 it is known by th(^ dull second abdominal segment, not polished between the punctures, 

 the sculpture of the mesothorax, &c. 



The above species of Jlaliclus and Parasphecodes maN- b<i separated by the 

 following table :— 



McfiOthorax black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 1 . 



Mfiiotliorax green oc Ijjue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • . . 6. 



1 . Abdoinon red or roddi.'ih . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 



Abdomen 1>Ih<1< . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 



2. Abdomen flcnr rcil, nil licr luinow .. .. .. .. .. .. II . rhiriqanlvr. 



Abdomen dusky reddifth, very bioud . . . . . . . . . . . . 1\ hrilnciim.ii. 



