50 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



nietatliorax dull, granular in middle, at sides with a weak 

 reticulate sculpture ; truncation of metathorax without pro- 

 jecting lateral points above ; tegulse dark rufous clouded 

 with fuscous. Wings very red, nervures and stigma ferru- 

 ginous ; first r. n. entering second s.m. near apex, or meeting 

 second t.-c. Legs black, anterior tibise variably red in 

 front, but the colour never very bright ; hind tibioe and tarsi 

 more or less strongly red, especially on inner side; hair 

 of hind tibiae pale reddish, sometimes fuscous on posterior 

 margin. Abdomen with short fuscous hair at apex ; venter 

 with shining white hair, long on second segment, more or 

 less fuscous toward the apex. 



Hah. Mt. Wellington, S. Tasmania, Jan. 15-Feb. 6, 1913 

 {R. E. Tamer), 4 ? . Brit. Museum. 



The specimens come from an altitude of 1300-2300 feet. 

 Among Smith's species this is nearest to P. lithiisca, but 

 differs by the dark legs. It is quite distinct from all the 

 species described in recent years. 



Parasphecodes turneri, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 8^ mm. 



llobust J . head and thorax black; abdomen deep chestnut- 

 red, first segment all red ; a blackish stain about caudal 

 margin ; hair of head and thorax thin, black on clypeus, 

 vertex, mesothorax, and scutellum, also at sides of front, but 

 otherwise rather dull white ; mandibles dark red at apex ; 

 clypeus and supraclypeal area brilliantly shining, sparsely 

 punctured ; front dull, glistening at sides ; antennoe entirely 

 black ; mesothorax entirely dull and granular, under the 

 compound microscope seen to be extremely densely con- 

 fluently punctured ; scutellum bigibbous, rough, the eleva- 

 tions shining ; area of metathorax strongly longitudinally 

 grooved, sharply truncate behind, the lateral posterior 

 corners iforming obtuse angles ; tegulfe black. Wings dusky, 

 but scarcely at all reddened; nervures and stigma sepia ; 

 first r. n. entering apex of second s.m. Legs black, with 

 glittering white hair, but black or fuscous on outer side of 

 tibiae. Abdomen with fuscous hair at apex ; hair of venter 

 entirely white. 



^ . — Length about 8 mm. 



Similar to the female, but less robust, though not slender ; 

 mandibles with no yellow spot ; labrum dark ; clypeus with 

 a broad apical pale yellow band, with a small pointed pro- 

 jection on its upper side in middle ; flagellum long, dull red 



