7i8 Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



In presenting tlie specimens Dr. Perkins pointed out 

 striking structural differences separating one of the specimens 

 from tlie other two; these differences entirely justify the 

 erection of a new genus, Metaparagia, into wliich two pre- 

 viously descrihed species, e. g. Paragia pictifrons^ JSmith, 

 and P. maculata, M .-Waldo, must be transferred. The 

 presence of mesonotal furrows in Paragia is not mentioned 

 by Saussure, and by Smith only in the description of P. 

 tricolor. Dalla Torre makes no mention of this character in 

 his diagnosis of Paragia {' Genera Insectorum,' Vespida, 

 p. 4). 



Metaparagia, gen. nov. 



Paragia similis, sed differt oculis distincte emarginatis ; mesonoto 

 sulcis longitudinalibus nullis. 



Type, Paragia ptctifrons, Smith. 



Metaparagia doddi, sp. n. 



2 . Kiger ; clypeo, mandibulis (apice excepto), scapo, fascia vertice, 

 sinuque orbitali, macula postoculari, pronoto antice et postice, 

 maculis subqnadratis pleuris, macula media lineolisque duabu3 

 postice mesonoto, tegulis, scutello postice, angulisque lateralibus 

 segmento mediano, flavis ; segmento abdomiuali primo late 

 postice, segmento secundo macula quadrata margine postico, 

 segmeuto tertio dorsali late et ventrali omnino, scgmentis quarto 

 et quinto postice et segmento sexto omnino, flavo fasciatis ; 

 pedibus flavis ; alis pallide fuscis. 



Cljpeus truncate, rather broader than long ; inner orbits 

 with a distinct emargination ; pronotum rounded anteriorly, 

 median segment truncate, lateral angles subtuberculate ; 

 abdomen elongate-ovate, first abdominal segment rounded 

 basally and not constricted apically. 



Punctured, the head and thorax (especially the disc of the 

 mesonotum) coarsely, clypeus and abdomen more finely. A 

 sparse pale pubescence on the vertex of head, median seg- 

 ment, and abdomen. 



Length 9 mm. (to apex of second abdominal segment). 



Hah. Cairns, N. Queensland {F. P. Dodd) ; 1 ^? . 



Y try nesiX io Metaparagia pictifrons^- ^\\\. J from which it 

 differs chiefly in the colour-pattern. The totally yeUow 

 clypeus, together with the yellow spots on the disc of the 

 mesonotum and the second abdominal segment, should serve 

 to separate the species at a ghmce. 



