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VI. Two Ncio Diplopterous Hy menoptera /ro??i Queensland. 

 By Rowland E. Turner. 



[Read February 5th, 1908.] 



Family MASAEIDiE. 



Paragia magdalena, n. sp. 



$ . Mandibles very broad, tridentate at the apex, the teeth blunt, 

 the outer tooth much the longest. Clypeus convex, much broader 

 than in P. deceptoj; Sm., broadly truncate at the apex, closely and 

 rather coarsely punctured. Head rugose ; the front between the 

 antennse slightly raised ; the inner margin of the eyes shallowly, 

 but widely, emarginate near the vertex ; the ocelli in a broad triangle, 

 the two posterior ocelli much further from each other than from the 

 anterior one, about half as far again from the eyes as from each other. 

 Thorax coarsely rugose ; the pronotum narrower than the head and 

 rounded anteriorly, very strongly arched posteriorly. Mesonotum 

 much longer than broad, with a faint median sulca anteriorly, 

 and a deep curved sulca on each side diverging towards the anterior 

 margin. Scutellum not very large, raised a little above the meso- 

 notum. Postscutellum and median segment depressed below the 

 scutellum, the median segment short, truncate and narrowed to the 

 apex, the angles rounded and without spines, closely punctured and 

 pubescent. Abdomen closely punctured, with short pubescence; the 

 first segment truncate anteriorly, much narrower than the second. 



Black ; the mandibles fusco-ferruginous, the legs light ferru- 

 ginous shading to yellow ; the basal two-thirds of the clypeus, 

 a large spot between the antennae, the inner orbits of the eyes, 

 most broadly near the summit and interrupted in the middle, 

 a spot on the outer orbit near the summit, a large subtri- 

 angular spot on each side of the pronotum, a spot on the meso- 

 pleuroe below the anterior wing, the tegulas and a short line above 

 them, a large spot on the middle of the scutellum, a small spot on 

 each side of the median segment, a transverse band broad on the 

 sides but almost interrupted in the middle at the apex of the first 

 abdominal segment, the third segment, except at the base, the apical 

 half of the fourth segment and the whole of the two apical segments 

 orange-yellow ; the second, fourth and fifth ventral segments very 

 narrowly and the third more broadly margined with yellow at the 

 apex ; the apical segment ferruginous brown. Wings flavo-hyaline, 



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