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but pleura entirely black ; tegulcc bright apricot colour ; anterior 

 femora and tibicB bright red, but their tarsi dark ; abdomen black, 

 wholly without blue tints ; wings very dark ; area of metathorax with 

 coarse ridges. 



Prosopis perJmmilis, CklL, var. a. 

 240 c (2333). Bridport, Oct. 26tb-30th, 1913. Two. 



S. Length about 4^ mm. ; supraclypeal mark very small; at 

 least half of hind basitarsi light. 



Parasphecodes rhodopterus, n. sp. 

 243 c (2325). Launceston, Jan. 18th, 1914. 



? . Length about 8 mm. ; rather robust ; head, thorax, legs and 

 antennas black, the last joint of flagellum very faintly reddish ; 

 tegulge rufotestaceous, dark at base ; wings very strongly reddened, 

 stigma and nervures dull red; abdomen chestnut-red, not very bright, 

 first segment with a large black spot on basal middle, and a trans- 

 verse very broad-triangular discal mark, segments beyond the third 

 suffused with blackish. Ciypeuswith strong punctures; mesothorax 

 and scutellum extremely densely and finely punctured ; area of 

 metathorax semilunar, with rather fine regular longitudinal ridges ; 

 posterior truncation without prominent upper corners ; first r. n. 

 joining the rather narrow second s. m. at apex; outer r. n. and t. c, 

 thin but dark ; hair on inner side of middle tarsi bright orange- 

 ferruginous, but on inner side of hind tarsi paler ; outer side of hind 

 tibiae and basitarsi with fuscous hair ; first two abdominal segments 

 dull, with extremely fine punctures all over ; third shining, with 

 scattered irregular very fine punctures ; third segment and beyond 

 with fuscous hair, only clearly seen in side view. 



Allied to P. taluchis, Sm., but flagellum and legs black. 



Parasvhecodes mfotegularis, n. sp. 

 235 c (2556). Launceston, Jan. 25th, 1914. 



^ . Length 8'5 mm. ; black, with the broad apical margin of 

 first abdominal segment (extending basad at sides), and the second 

 and third segments entirely, very bright ferruginous ; labrum, man- 

 dibles and about apical half of clypeus (with an angular median 

 projection into the black) light yellow ; antennae very long, black ; 

 teguiae bright ferruginous ; wings slightly dusky, nervures and stigma 

 fuscous ; knees, anterior tibite (except a blackish mark on outer side), 

 middle tibias at apex, and all the tarsi, ferruginous. Head and thorax 

 with greyish white hair ; front dull ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 very finely punctured, the scutellum and posterior part of mesothorax 

 shining ; area of metathorax rather large, semilunar, glistening, with 

 quite irregular rugae producing a subreticulate effect ; first r. n. 

 meeting second t. c. ; abdomen with very fine punctures. This is 

 too different from the last to be its male, the metathorax especially 

 being quite different. There is some resemblance to P. stuchila, Sm., 

 but that has the area of metathorax rugose-granular, and the tibiae 

 ferruginous. 



