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beneath ; abdomen black ])ejoiKl (he third segment, and with 

 a round bUick spot on each extreme side ot' tliiid near base ; 

 It'^s without red or yeUow markings. 



Ihib. Eagleliawk Neck, S.E. Tasmania, Feb. 12-Marcb 3, 

 VdV6 {R. i:. Turner). 1 ? ( = type), 1 c? . Brit. Museum. 



The male may be compared with P. alticlius, Sm., but it 

 bas no black cloud on third abdominal segment, and the disc 

 of thorax is not strongly punctured. The female is not much 

 like any described species. 



Parasphecodes recessus^ sj), n. 



$ . — Length about 9 mm. 



Robust ; head, thorax, legs, and antennae black ; abdomen 

 shining, dark chestnut-red, first segment dorsally black 

 except the very broad apical margin, apical segments red ; 

 second segment with a small and third with a large black 

 spot on each extreme side near base ; mandibles black, with 

 an obscure subapical red band ; clypeus shining, sparsely 

 punctured ; hair of head and thorax scanty, white on sides of 

 thorax, pale ochreous on vertex and dorsum of thorax, mixed 

 with fuscous on scutellum ; mesothorax deeply grooved in 

 middle, dullish, with fine weak punctures which become well 

 separated on disc (under the compound microscope the punc- 

 tures are seen as minute elevations surrounded by depressions, 

 and the space between them is minutely and weakly tessel- 

 late) ; scutellum somewhat bigibbous, sculptured like meso- 

 thorax ; area of metathorax with irregular fine rngge basally, 

 running into an irregular reticulation and disappearing on 

 the a])ical part, which has a microscopical tessellation ; poste- 

 rior truncation sharply defined, with projecting points at 

 upper corners ; tegulai black. Wings somewhat dusky, not 

 reddened, stigma and nervures red-brown ; second s.m. 

 broad 3 first r. n. meeting second t.-c. Hair of legs mostly 

 yellowish white, fulvous on inner side of tarsi, dark fuscous 

 on outer side o£ hind tibiaj and basitarsi. Punctures of 

 abdomen excessively fine. 



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

 (-R. E. Turner). Brit. Museum. 



Among Smith's species comes closest to P. (ilaclius, but 

 fourth and fifth abdominal segments not black, &c. T!ie 

 sculpture of mesothorax is quite different from that of 

 P, specuUftrus. 



