:i HYMENOPTERA. 



2. Paracua tricolor. B.M. 



Paracia tricolor, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 2nd ser. i. 41. 



t. b. f. lc?(nec?). 

 Paragia Smithii, Sauss. Mon. Fanss. Guipes, 55. 3. t. 2. f. 1 $ . 



Hub. Australia (Adelaide). 



3. Paragia Saussurii. B.M. 

 Paragia tricolor, Sauss. Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 54. 2 $ (nee Smith). 

 Hob. Australia (Perth). 



4. Paragia Odyneroides. B.M. 



Paragia Odvneroides, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 2nd ser. i. 

 42. t. 5. f. 2 ? . 



Sauss. Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 56. 4. 



Hob. Australia (Hunter River). 



5. Paragia Australis. 



Pai-agia Australis, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 3rd ser. i. Bull, 

 p. 21 ; Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 57- 5 <? $ . t. 2. f. 2 <? . 



Hah. Tasmania. (Coll. ^I. Saussure.) 



6. Paragia bicolor. 



Paragia bicolor, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 3rd ser. i. Bull. p. 21 

 (1853) ; Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 58. 6. t. 2. f. 3 c? . 



Hah. Australia. (Paris Museum.) 



7. Paragia bidex.s. B.M. 

 Paragia bidens, Sauss. Mon. Faiiss. Guepes, 59. 7 c7 $ • 



Hah. Adelaide. 



The male only in the Collection of the British Museum. 



8. Paragia pr;edator. B.M. 

 Paragia predator, Sauss. Mon. Fauss. Guepes, 59. 8 ? . 



Hab. Australia. 



.9. Paragia pictifrons. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. — Black : the head and thorax 

 closely covered with large confluent ])unctures; the anterior 

 margin of the clyjjeus tiiincated, and having a minute tubercle 

 in the middle ; the mandibles obtusely subdentate at their apex ; 

 the inner orbit of the eyes notched, the notc^li orange, and a 

 waved orange band crossing the forehead between the notches ; 

 an orange Ime on the lateral margins of the clypeus ; the scape 



