Records of Bees. l-lli 



Parasphecodes fultoni, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 9 mm. 



Head, thorax, autennae, and legs black, with light ochra- 

 ceous pubescence, becoming light fulvous dorsally ; mandibles 

 obscurely reddish apically ; clypeus shining apically, dull 

 basally, strongly punctured, without a median groove; meso- 

 thorax densely and Huely rugoso punctate ; scutellum 

 similarly punctured, but bigibbous, with a median sulcus, 

 the summits of the elevations shining; area of metathorax 

 large, covered with strong rather wavy longitudinal rugae, 

 except a narrow apical band just before tlie semicircular 

 rather sharp edge ; upper part of truncation with a rather 

 inconspicuous but long tuft of pale hair ; inner side of tarsi 

 with reddish hair ; tegulae bright clear fulvous. Wings 

 dusky, darker apically; stigma dull ferruginous, large; 

 nervures sepia, third t.-c. and second r. n. weakened ; second 

 s.m. small ; first r. u. meeting second t.-c. ; third s.m. 

 broader below than above. Abdomen with the first two 

 segments chestnut-red (the first not black at base), very 

 finely punctured ; third more dusky, nearly half covered by 

 a large broad blackish triangular area, but hind margin 

 broadly red ; fourth black, with the hind margin dull red ; 

 apical segments black, and hair at apex black ; second and 

 third segments with fine white pile at extreme base laterally. 



Huh. Croydon, Australia, Jan. 11, 1909 (6'. W.Fulton; 

 N. Mus. Yict. 189). 



Mr. Fulton, on the same day, took P. speculiferus, Ckll. 

 (N. Mus, Vict. 199), at Croydon ; it is very like P. fultoni, 

 but differs in the colour of the hair, the darker tegulie, and 

 the finer, not wrinkled, rugaj of metathoracic area. F. fultoni 

 is also closely allied to P. cirriferus. Ckll., but much 

 smaller. 



Parasphecodes plorutor, Cockerell. 



The original type was labelled ^lelbourne, but seven 

 specimens now before me were all collected ijy Mr. S. \V. 

 Fulton at Croydon (Xat. ]\Ius. Victoria, 90, 9o, 98, 2^\, 

 242,2 44,24.5). 



The females of the black or almost black species of 

 Parasphecodes known to me may be separated as follows : — 



Area of metathorax without rugje plorator, Ckll. 



Area of metathorax with rugje 1. 



1. Apical half of abdominal venter with coar.?e 



black hair fmnidicaudm, Ckll. 



Apical half of abdominal venter with ligrht 

 Lair -. 



