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the mesothorax behind, and a minute one on each side 

 of it, the scutellum, sides of the metathorax, and the 

 legs, orange ; the anterior coxae black ; wings sub-hya- 

 line, with a fuscous cloud along their anterior margins, 

 which becomes black in the marginal cell ; the nervures 

 ferruginous towards the base of the wings, black beyond. 

 Abdomen orange ; the second segment, and the base of 

 the fourth, black ; the base of the second segment 

 orange, interrupted in the middle. Beneath, the second, 

 fourth, and fifth segments black. 

 Hab. Champion Bay. 



4. Paragia nasuta. 



Female. Length 6^ lines. Black : the face orna- 

 mented with yellow, and the body with orange-red 

 markings. Head : the anterior margin of the clypeus 

 produced ; a transverse spot at its base, and an ovate 

 one above, between the antennte, yellow ; a yellow spot 

 behind the eyes ; the mandibles ferruginous at their 

 apex, and sub-dentate. Thorax : the prothorax above, 

 a sub-quadrate spot beneath the wings, the tegulffi and a 

 line on the mesothorax at their margin, the scutellum 

 and an abbreviated line before it, orange-red ; the meta- 

 thorax with a blunt orange-red tooth on each side, and 

 a yellow line on the post-scutellum ; the tibite, tarsi and 

 femora, red, the latter more or less black beneath ; the 

 wings hyaline, the anterior margin of the superior pair 

 fuscous. Abdomen : a broad orange-red band on the 

 apical margins of the first and third segments; the apical 

 segment of a testaceous red, except at its extreme base. 



The male is rather smaller, and has the clypeus, a spot 

 above it, and a line on the scape in front, white ; of two 

 examples, one has an abbreviated white line on the inner 

 margins of the eyes ; the mandibles white outside ; the 

 central red line before the scutellum obsolete ; in other 

 respects resembling the female. 



This species closely resembles P. deeept&r, but that 

 insect has the mandibles furnished with three prominent 

 teeth, and the basal segment of the abdomen is much 

 narrower. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



In the Rntish Museum. 



