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ParucolUtes providus, Smith. 



Near Melbourne (Nat. Mus. Yict. 262) ; no locality 

 (Nat. Mus. Vict. 87) ; N.S. Wales (./. A. Kershaw, Nat. 

 Mus. Vict. 83). 



ParacoUetes viridicindus, Cockerell. 



Croydon, Jan. 11, 1909 {S. W. Fulton ; Nat. Mus. Vict. 

 91, 92, 94). Perhaps not quite typical, but not to be 

 separated. 



Parusphecodes venniculatus, sp. n. 



($ . — Length 9 mm. 



Parallel-sided, not very slender ; head, thorax, and the 

 long antennae black ; clypeus with the apical part broadly 

 cream-colour, the light area coming to a point in middfe 

 above ; labrum black, with the transverse projecting edge 

 ferruginous ; mandibles black ; tongue short and broad ; 

 hair of head and thorax dull greyish white, rather scanty ; 

 eyes strongly converging below ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 entirely dull and minutely granular; pleura rugulose; area 

 of metathorax large, sharply bounded in middle behind, 

 entirely covered with strong vermiform rugse, tiie depressions 

 between them shining, and quite without a smooth posterior 

 margin ; tegulae dark rufous with a darker spot. Wings 

 hyaline, conspicuously dusky at apex ; stigma dark rufous, 

 nervures fuscous ; second s.m. very broad ; first r, n. meetiu"- 

 second t.-c. ; third s.m. quadrate, broad above, with the 

 outer side bulging; outer nervures not weakened; femora 

 black, with the knees red ; tibiae bright chestnut-red, the 

 hind ones more or less suffused with dusky ; tarsi black 

 with apex of last joint red. Abdomen bright chestnut-red, 

 the fifth segment and beyond black or nearly ; first two 

 segments very minutely punctured ; suture between first 

 and second somewhat depressed, but not that between second 

 and third ; first segment wholly red ; no lateral hair-patches ; 

 a black patch on ventral side at extreme base. 



Hab. Australia, presumably Victoria ; Nat. Mus. Victoria, 

 173, presented by G. T. Grill. 



In my table in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hi^t., Sept. 1904., this 

 runs to P. stuchila, Sm., differing by the densely wrinkled 

 base of metathorax, first abdominal segment (dorsal) entirely 

 red, third segment not depressed at base, and first r. n. 

 meeting second t.-c. Otherwise it agrees with Smithes 

 account of P. stuchila, and my notes on the type. The 



