226 Mr. T. D. A. CockereW— Descriptions and 



segment suffused with blacldsli ; femora at apex, and t'xhiie 

 except some dark markings, red, tarsi dark reddish ; middle 

 of mandibles broadly and lower part of clypeus red. 

 Superficially, this looks exactly like P. basilautus, Ckll., 

 except that the hair on scutellum and adjacent parts is not 

 so dense, and therefore does not appear as a light spot or 

 patch. The species is very close to P. basilautus, differing 

 by the darker legs, with fuscous hair on the outer side of 

 middle and hind tibite and tarsi. There is a large tuft of 

 long light hair on the upper part of the metathoracic trun- 

 cation. Flagellum entirely dark. 



Hub. Cheltenham, Victoria, 1909 {French) ; from the 

 Froggatt collection, no. 83, 



The name of the locality, in this and some other instances, 

 is misspelled on the label ; I am able to make the necessary 

 corrections from an accurate list of localities kindly supplied 

 by Professor Froggatt. In my table of Smith's species 

 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1904) this runs perhaps 

 nearest to P. taluchis, but the wings are only slightly 

 yellowish, and the large metathoracic area has only very 

 delicate irregular wrinkles, mainly confined to the base, 

 except a single median one. P. taluchis is also smaller and 

 otherwise different. 



Parasphecodes niicrodontus, sp. n. 

 5 . — Length 8 mm. (but abdomen of type much re- 

 tracted). 



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

 dark chestnut-red, nearly uniform in colour ; head and 

 thorax with hair rather abundant, pale dull greyish, very 

 obscurely brownish-tinted dorsally; mandibles dark ; clypeus 

 shining, with large scattered punctures ; middle of front 

 dull and granular ; mesothorax shining, but finely and 

 quite closely punctured ; middle of scutellum shining, with 

 the punctures well separated ; area of metathorax not 

 defined, very irregularly roughened and wrinkled, with 

 some oblique more regular striae basally at the sides ; 

 posterior truncation sharply defined above and at the sides, 

 and having a tooth-like marginal projection near each upper 

 corner; tegulae very dark reddish. AVings dusky trans- 

 lucent, a little reddish ; stigma and nervures ferruginous ; 

 first r. n. entering basal corner of third s.m., third t.-c. and 

 second r. n. much weakened. Hair of legs pale yellowish, 

 more or less fuscous on outer side of tibiae, pale orange on 

 inner side of tarsi ; hind spur simple. Abdomen very 

 finely punctured, \Yithout lateral hair-patches. 



