WASP-GENUS PARALASTOR. 605 
deflexis opacis et pubescentibus. Frons capitis et thorax densius 
pilosi, pilis minus longis. Pronotum antice fere recte truncatum, 
parum distincte marginatum. Tegule dense minutissime punc- 
tulate, fere opace. Postscutellum medium tuberculo spiniformi 
armatum. Abdominis segmentum primum transversim subde- 
pressum, haud grosse punctatum ; secundum dorsale, basim versus, 
haud convexim elevatum ; ventrale, post sulcum transversum, 
fortissime elevatum, fortiter nec dense punctatum. Ale in- 
fuscatee. Long. circiter 12 mm. 
Owing to the depression of the clypeus anteriorly, behind the 
emar zination, two blunt or rounded carine are formed where the 
sides are deflexed. 
Hab. Australia, no special locality. Two old and dirty examples 
in the British Museum. 
65. PARALASTOR PSEUDOCHROMUS, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 14.) 
2 colore et picturatione P. argentifrontis Sm. ornata, et ut 
probabile, eodem modo variabilis; structura a P. ewstomo vix 
distinguenda. Long. 10°3-12 mm. 
Two long curved spots on the sides of the clypeus and the 
medio-frontal and postocular spots orange, those on the clypeus 
reduced in size and redder in one example. Pronotal spots, which 
are small, and the pale part of the tegule orange or red. Both 
the first and second fascize of the abdomen are broad and laterally 
dilated, the second at its middle reaching about to the middle of 
the segment, and towards the sides considerably nearer still to 
the base. The coloration is not the same as that of P. eustomes, 
but is rather that described by Saussure as “ sanguineus.” Ex- 
cepting that it appears to be of rather more slender and elongate 
form, the species in structure is much like P. eustomus. Since 
the two exawples, that I have seen, exhibit some variation, further 
material is necessary to decide whether the present species and 
P. eustomus are more than local colour-forms of one species. 
Hab. Victoria (French); two examples. 
66. PARALASTOR VULNERATUS Sauss. 
This small but robust species appears to vary in the pattern of 
the second abdominal segment, like P. argentifrons Sm., or rather, 
I should say, like the examples I refer to that species. The 
clypeus may be all black, or may have small or large, orange or 
red, basal markings. 
The extraordinary prolongation and flattening of the clypeus, 
with its very deep emargination, and the flattening of the plate 
between the antenne to adapt it to the base of the clypeus, sepa- 
rate it from any other, except the following. The extremely deep 
and coarse puncturation of the tegule, the form of the insect and 
its sculpture, and the condition of the hind angles of the second 
abdominal segment, are altogether like P. sanguineus Sauss., 
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