]4:-4 ^Ir, T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



2. Secoud ventral seguieat of abdomen with a 



dense tuft of hair covering the slight median 



elevation noachinus, Clill. 



Second ventral segment without such a tuft of 

 hair; mesothorax more densely punctured. . 3. 



3. Tubercle on second ventral segment low ; 



abdomen wholly black dissimulator, Ckll. 



Tubercle on second ventral segment high : 

 first three segments of abdomen ver\' dark 

 red atrorufescens, Ckll. 



There is one other species^ P. carbonarius {Halictus 

 carbonarius, Smith). This is nearest to P. noachinus, ,but 

 smaller, with more dark hair on the legs. 



Paraspliecodes fnmiilicaudus , sp. n. 



? .—Length \0\ mm. 



Pitch-black (including the legs), flagellum reddisli at 

 apex ; pubescence black, more or less pallid on cheeks and 

 sides of metathorax, and tubercles with a dense pale fringe ; 

 clypeus prominent, with sparse strong punctures and (to- 

 w^ard base) much smaller ones, and a median depression ; 

 fringe below clypeus wholly dark ; mesothorax moderately 

 shining, distinctly and rather closely punctured, more 

 sparsely on the disc posteriorly ; scutellum bigibbous, with 

 minute punctui-es, and scattered larger ones ; area of meta- 

 thorax rather strongly obliqnely ridged, with a thickened 

 margin interrupted in middle, much as in arciferus. Legs 

 with dark hair ; teguhe black. Wings dilute fuliginous, 

 nervures and the rather small stigma very dark reddish; 

 second s.m. very broad; first r. n. meeting second t.-c. ; 

 second r. n. and. third t.-c. thin. First two abdominal seg- 

 ments distinctly but not very densely punctured ; apex with 

 black hair 



Hab. Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Oct. 2, 1911 

 (H. Hacker, Qucensl. Mus. 21). 



Par us phe codes noachinus, sp. n. 

 $ . — Length 11 mm., expanse about 20^, 

 iJlack (including the legs), tlagcilum with the aj)ioal half 

 very obscurely reddish l)eneath ; hair of head and thorax 

 pale grey, with much black on face, front, vertex, mesothorax, 

 and scutellum; clypeus longitudinally grooved, with very 

 strong punctures, and some small ones ; front and vertex 

 shining; mesothorax shining, but not brilliantly, strongly 

 but not very densely punctured, quite sparsely at sides of 

 middle ; scutellum bigibbous, shining, and sparsely punc- 

 tured ; area of metathorax delicately obliquely striate, the 



