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hind margin swollen and obtnse, interrupted in middle. 

 Lejrs with dull white hair, dark fuscous on outer side of 

 middle and hiud tibise ; hind spur simple ; teguke black. 

 Wings dilute brownish, stigma and nervures very dark 

 reddish brown ; second s.m. broad, about square ; first r. n. 

 joining second t.-c. ; outer nervures thin but dark. Abdo- 

 men shining, finely punctured, the hind margins of the 

 segmeuts broadly smooth and impunctate ; the first segment 

 has a smooth impunctate area on each side ; hair at apex 

 black, of venter white to end of fourth segment ; the 

 second abdominal segment is very finely white-ciliate at 

 extreme base. 



Hah. Ararat, Victoria [IF. F. Hill ; N. Mus. Vict. 78, 

 80). Two specimens. 



Parasphecodea dissimulator, sp, n. 



? . — Lengtli about 11 mm. 



Black, including legs : flagellum rather bright ferruginous 

 at apex ; clypeus shining, sparsely and irregidarly punctured, 

 with a median sulcus; front roughened, hardly shining; 

 hair of head and thorax dull white, mixed with fuscous on 

 front of head, and to some extent on disc of thorax ; meso- 

 thorax densely punctured, shining between the punctures ; 

 scutellum flattened, closely punctured, not bigibbous ; area 

 of metathorax of the same type as in P. nuachiaus, but the 

 striie very feeble. Legs with rather more dark hair than 

 in P. noachhms, the hind tibise with a band of red-brown 

 hair on outer side, hind basitarsus with a brush of red hair 

 at end ; tegulse rufo-piceous. Wings strongly dusky, 

 nervures and stigma ferruginous ; second s.m. broad, 

 receiving first r. n. at its apical corner. Abdomen nearly 

 as in the allied species, the punctures on second segment 

 small and not at all dense ; hair at apex black, of venter 

 pale; second ventral segment with a slight elevation. 



Hab. One specimen labelled Carrom, Victoria {French ; 

 Froggatt coll. 176). 



Parasphecodes atrorufescens , sp. n. 



$ . — Length 10 mm. 



Robust, black, with the first three abdominal segments 

 very dark red ; flagellum black, very faintly reddish at end ; 

 clypeus shining, with a slender median groove and sparse 

 only moderately largo punctures; front dullisli, granular, 

 but shining below middle ocellus ; hair of head and thorax 

 as in P. dissimulator ; mesothorax densely, rather coarsely 



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