32 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



b 3 . Abdomen black and yellow. 



a*. Scutellum yellow, segments 1-4 of 



abdomen broadly yellow on sides. ... P. tricolor, Sm. 

 fe 4 . Scutellum black, segments 2-5 of ab- 

 domen with narrow yellow fasciae on 



apical margin P. saussurei, Sm. 



b 2 . First abdominal segment narrower than 

 second. 

 a 3 . Abdomen banded with orange-yellow, 



second segment black P. magdalena, Turn. 



6 3 . Five basal abdominal segments with 



narrowly interrupted yellow lines .... P. vespiformts, Sm. 



P. australis, Sauss., and P. bicolor, Sauss., are not included 

 in the above key, as I have not seen specimens of them, and 

 the descriptions are too short to render their inclusion 

 possible. 



Paragia, Shuckard. 

 Par agio, maculata, sp. n. 



$ . Black ; a spot on the clypeus, in the sinus of each eye, 

 behind the eyes, the anterior margin and posterior angles of 

 the pronotum, the tegulae, except at the base, a large spot 

 on the mesopleurse below the base of each fore wing, a spot 

 on the anterior angles of the scutellum, a vertical mark on 

 each side of the median segment, a band on the apex of the 

 first abdominal segment, broadening at the sides, a median 

 series of transverse spots, lateral transverse lines on each 

 side of segments 2-5, a spot on ventral surface of second 

 abdominal segment, orange-yellow. Mandibles, the legs, a 

 spot on the tegulse at the base, ferrugineous. Tibia? and tarsi 

 of legs densely covered with a greyish-white pubescence on 

 the outside. Wings hyaline ; costa, radial, first cubital cell, 

 and nervures fuscous ; second cubital cell not receiving both 

 recurrent nervures, but first recurrent nervure interstitial 

 with first transverse cubital nervure. Clypeus subtriangular, 

 depressed and truncate at the apex, with a median longitu- 

 dinal carina; pronotum broadly rounded in front ; scutellum 

 prominent, covering postscutellum, median segment truncate, 

 apical angles produced to a sharp point. Abdomen elongate- 

 ovate, first segment distinctly narrower than second, strongly 

 constricted at apex. 



Punctured, thorax and vertex of head rugosely, clypeus 

 and abdomen minutely, truncation of median segment trans- 

 versely rugulose, with a median carina. 



Total length 12 mm. 



