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the anterior pair very dark along the anterior margin; abdomen 
bright orange-red, the first and third segments black, the latter 
with its posterior margin narrowly bordered with orange, the 
margin waved anteriorly; the basal segment with a central longi- 
tudinal line, not deeply impressed, and the line is orange towards 
the posterior margin of the segment ; the second segment narrowly 
black at its basal margin, most broadly so in the centre. 
Var.—The orange border to the prothorax recurved at the 
lateral angles, and enclosing a triangular black shape on the face 
of the truncation ;. the compressed tooth on the lateral margins 
of the metathorax orange-red ; the basal segment of the abdomen 
with only two united bilobed black spots. 
Hab, Adelaide. 
12. Paragia venusta. 
P. nigra, aurantiaca multipicta; abdominis basi et segmento 
tertio aurantiacis; alis hyalinis, anticis margine anteriori 
fusco. 
Female.—Length 5 lines. 
Black, opaque ; the clypeus, a coronet-shaped spot above and a 
line at the inner and outer orbits of the eyes, not reaching to their 
summit, the prothorax, an epaulet over the tegule, the scutellum, 
a minute spot on the mesothorax before the scutellum, a spot on 
each side of the metathorax, another beneath the wings, and the 
legs, all orange-yellow ; the coxe black; the wings hyaline, with 
the anterior margin of the superior pair dark fuscous ; the basal 
segment of the abdomen, an interrupted narrow band at the basal 
margin of the second, the third segment, the apical margin of 
the two following, and the sixth segment entirely, orange-yellow ; 
beneath, the third segment entirely, and the apical margin of the 
first and second segments, orange. 
Hab. Swan River. 
13. Paragia vespiformis. 
P. nigra; capite thoraceque flavo-variegatis ; abdomine fasciis 
quinque flavis; alis subhyalinis. 
Female.—Length 7 lines. 
Black and opaque; the clypeus, base of the mandibles exte- 
riorly, a broad stripe along the inner margin of the eyes extend- 
ing upwards from the base of the mandibles to the insertion of 
the antenne, a shorter narrow stripe above the broad one, and 
also a short thin line above each antenna, yellow; behind the 
eyes there is also a yellow stripe; a narrow line on the anterior 
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