582 DR. R. C. L. PERKINS ON THE 
The clypeus has two very strongly raised longitudinal carine, 
not mentioned by Saussure, but which, as Mr. Meade-W aldo has 
kindly informed me, are present in the type, the face of which is 
asymmetrical or somewhat deformed. In most respects P. elegans 
resembles P. conspiciendus, apart from the quite different colour- 
pattern, but the clypeus is much shorter and the propodeum 
shorter and more rounded, less quadrate. 
Hab. N. Queensland (#7. P. Dodd), 2 2. 
12. PARALASTOR TRICARINULATUS, Sp. 0. 
3. Niger, clypeo, maculaque elongata interantennali, huie 
adjuncta, flavis, macula parva verticis postoculari utrinque 
aurantiaca. Abdominis segmentum primum spatio lunulato 
apicali rufo-decoratum, secundum ferrugineo-rufum, macula 
basali, haud ad medium segmentum extensa, nigra, segmentis 
sequentibus cum tibiis tarsisque aurantiacis aut ferrugineis. 
Clypeus leviter emarginatus, apice lato, anguste _nigro- 
marginato, evidenter, sed parum _ acute, longitudinaliter 
3-carinatus. Frons capitis rugoso-punctata. Pronoti truncatio 
vix marginata. Mesonotum grosse et rugose punctatum. 
Scutellum postice conspicue foveatum. Postscutellum medium. 
subproductum sive subtuberculatum. Abdominis segmentum 
primum transversim subconspicue impressum, puncturatione sua, 
quam mesonotali, minus grossa; segmentum 2 ventrale post 
sulcam abrupte fortiter elevatum, elevatione summa _paullo 
rotundatim prominula, grossim et copiose punctatum ; segmentim 
7 ventrale pilis erectis sat longis conspicue vestitum, medium 
longitudinaliter sulcatum. Ale, costali parte excepta, subhyaline. 
Long. 13-14 mm. 
Hab. Victoria (C. French), 1 3. 
13. PARALASTOR TASMANIENSIS Sauss. 
This species was described by Saussure from a headless male, 
and is said by him to inhabit Tasmania, but I have only seen 
Queensland examples. 
In the male the clypeus, medio-frontal spot, and front of the 
scape of the antenne and the postocular spots of the vertex are 
yellow, the latter sometimes redder or orange. In the female 
the apical portion of the clypeus is black, the rest orange or fer- 
ruginous brown. The scape of the antenne black or largely 
ferruginous or reddish brown in front. The tegule are very 
coarsely punctured, the punctures extending to (or almost to) 
the outer margin. The apical ventral segment of the male is 
wide and widely impressed, and bears only very short hairs, as 
do the preceding segments. 
Hab. Queensland, Brisbane; in Oct., Jan., Dec., and March 
(Hacker). I suspect that the locality (Tasmania) given by Saus- 
sure 1s erroneous. 
