WASP-GENUS PARALASTOR. 579 
1. Paratasror (Paralastoroides) cLorHo Lep. 
Distinct from all other species by the suture of the first 
abdominal segment and by the coloration. I have not seen this 
species, and J do not not know whether Saussure saw more than 
a single example. He says that the suture is ‘ more or less 
distinct.” 
Hab. Australia. 
2. PARALASTOR SAUSSUREI, sp. 0. 
2. Nigra, fronte interantennali rufo-punctata, capitis vertice 
utringque minute flavo-notato; abdominis segmento secundo, 
triangulo elongato nigro mediano excepto, cum sequentibus, ferru- 
gineo, aut plus minus aurantiaco. Clypeus nitidus, haud densim, 
sed plus minus strigose, punctatus, apice distincte, levius 
emarginato. Frons capitis grosse et distincte punctata, linea 
leevi, semicirculari, ocellum anteriorem includente, instructa. 
Capitis vertex et thorax densissime rugoso-punctati, postscutello 
medio elevatulo, sive tuberculato, et, cum propodeo, opaco et 
multo, quam scutellum, subtilius sculpturato. Tegule fortiter 
conspicue punctate. Abdominis segmentum primum, pars 
secundi dimidia basalis, partes frontis capitis orbitales, et basis 
et latera deflexa clypei, albido-tomentosa, partibus abdominis 
ceteris aureo-tomentosis. Al superiores fortiter infuscate, et 
cexruleo-nitentes. Segmentum abdominis 2 ventrale post suleum 
valde fortiter elevatum, elevatione summa prominente. Long. 
a fronte usque ad apicem segmenti 2 abdominis 15 mm. 
Hab. North Queensland (Dodd). 
3. PARALASTOR INFERNALIS Sauss. 
The band of the second abdominal segment varies in colour 
from pale orange-yellow to deeper orange, and is sometimes 
angulately sometimes roundly emarginate. The facial markings 
of the male vary, the clypeus sometimes being wholly yellow, 
sometimes only yellow basally, with intermediate conditions. 
The sinus of the eyes is sometimes yellow, the scape in front and 
a medio-frontal spot probably always so. The pronotum is 
usually spotted with yellow, more rarely black. Three apical 
joints of the antenne small, but distinct. Tegule with 
conspicuous, deep, coarse punctures. 
Hab. Cairns (3 (N. Queensland) and Port Darwin. Twenty-four 
exainples examined. 
4, PARALASTOR RUFIPES, Sp. Nn. 
Agrees generally in form and in sculpture with P. infernalis, 
but is at once distinguished by the red legs and the narrower 
apical band of the second abdominal segment, which is only a 
little dilated at the extreme sides. The postscutellum is without 
the distinct tubercle of infernalis 9, in which species it may be 
