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edge) pale yellow, this sending a pointed projection upwards 

 in the middle; mandibles dark, reddish in the middle; 

 antennae broken at fourth joint in type, but apparently all 

 dark except a small reddish spot at extreme base of flagellum 

 beneath ; thorax dull, minutely roughened ; base of meta- 

 tho]'ax irregularly ruguloso-plicate, with a sharp rim ; 

 tegulje rufo-fulvous. Wings slightly dusky, a little yellowish, 

 not darkened apically ; uervures and stigma sepia-brown ; 

 first r. n. meeting second, t.-c. Legs black, the anterior and 

 middle knees, the anterior tibiae broadly in front, and the 

 anterior and middle tarsi more or less, ferruginous ; abdomen 

 deep but bright chestnut-red, broad like that of a female 

 (much broader than in P. talchius), very closely and minutely 

 punctured, a suffused T-like area on first segment, a suffused 

 median area on third, and all of fourth and following ones 

 black. 



Hub. Bathurst, N.S.W., Jan. 18, 1893, no. 124 

 {Froggatt). 



"V ery distinct by its great hairiness and stout abdomen. 

 Nearest, I think, to P. altichus. The second r. n. and third 

 t.-c. are strong, not at all weakened as in P. tilachus. 



Parasphecodes lichatus, Smith. 



Perth, W. Australia ; 93-198. ? . 



This and the next three species are superficially very 

 similar ; they may be distinguished as follows : — 



Abdomen smootk and shining, hind legs clear red . . adelaidce, Ckll. 

 Abdomen not so shining, hind legs not red 1. 



1 . "\'ertex and mesothorax above with much black hair ; 



abdomen very dark lichatus, Sin. 



Vertex and mesothorax not so 2. 



2. Abdomen black beyond third segment Loweri, Ckll. 



Fourth segment red Tepperi, Ckll, 



Parasphecodes adelaidcB, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 9 mm. 



Head and thorax black, with thin whitish pubescence, 

 dense and ochreous on margin of tubercles ; head large and 

 broad; clypeus very sparsely punctured, depressed in the 

 middle, and with a reddish spot ; middle of mandibles 

 reddish ; flagellum dark reddish beneath ; mesothorax 

 shining, with very minute punctures of different sizes ; area 

 of metathorax slightly irregularly wrinkled, but not con- 

 spicuously sculptured, its rim rather weak ; tegulae shining 

 dark reddish. Wings faintly dusky, not clouded apically; 



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