12 HYMENOPTERA. 



palest, their ]Mi1)osreii('c fulvous. Abdomen red, the extreme base 

 l)laek, apex slightly fuscous, the aual riuia ferruginous. 

 Hub. Van Diemen's Land. 



!). P.XRASPHECODES TaLCHIUS. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Head and thorax black, apex of the 

 clypeus yellow ; the face thickly covered with yellow pubescence ; 

 antenu.-c as long as the head and thorax, the latter closely ])unc- 

 tured ; the base of the metathorax enclosed by an arched ridge, 

 the enclosiu'e coarsely rugose ; legs black, the tibiit; and tarsi 

 more or less rufo-piceous ; wings subhyaline, clouded at their 

 apex. Abdomen very closely and finely punctured, black at the 

 base, the ajiex more or less fuscous, basal margins of the second 

 and third segments depressed. 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land. 



10. Parasphecodes Stuchila, n. s. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Head and thorax black, antenna; as long 

 as the head and thorax, the apex of the cly]ieus and the labrum 

 yellow. Thorax very minutely punctm-ed ; the liase of the meta- 

 thorax enclosed by an arched elevated ridge, the enclosure finely 

 reticulate ; wings subhyaline, their apex clouded ; the tibia;, tarsi 

 and posterior femora above ferruginous. Abdomen ferruginous, 

 the basal half of the first segment black, slightly fuscous ; basal 

 margins of the second and third segments depressed. 



Var. Legs and abdomen black, the claw-joint of the tarsi alone 

 ferruginous. Abdomen black, tibiae and tarsi testaceo-ferrugi- 



nous 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land. 



11. Parasphecodes Altichus, n. s. 



Male. Length 4^ lines. — Head and thorax black, antennae as 

 long as the head and thorax, the face covered with ochraceous 

 pubescence, the apex of the clypeus yellow, which in the centre 

 is produced upward in an angular shape ; margin of the clypeus, 

 the labnim and mandibles dark ferruginous, the flagellum fulvous 

 beneath. Thorax, the disk closely and strongly punctiu'ed ; at 

 the base of the metathorax is an enclosed space coarsely rugose ; 

 the sides of the truncation have a raised carina, the sides of the 

 metathorax covered with ochraceous pubescence thinly scattered 

 over the whole thorax beneath ; wings subhyaline, nervures fer- 

 ruginous ; the apex of the wings fuscous ; legs black, claw-joint 

 of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen elongate-ovate, closely and 

 finely punctured, most strongly at the base ; the third segment 



