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before end ; femora black with apex broadly rufous ; anterior and middle 
tibiae dusky red, hind tibiae black ; anterior and middle tarsi reddish, hind pair 
black, with an orange brush at end of basitarsi ; abdomen broad, minutely 
punctured, tergites dark red, with no black basal mark, extreme apex blackish ; 
small cuneiform patches of white hair at lateral bases of second and third 
tergites ; venter with white hair. 
Beaconsfield, Victoria, Jan. 1, 1918 (F. E. Wilson, 510, 631) ; Queensland 
Museum. Closely related to P. fultoni Ckll., the male easily distinguished by 
the flagellum red beneath (all black in P. fultoni, and also in P. rufulus Friese), 
and the female by the red front and middle tibiae. 
Parasphecad.es subfultoni sp. n. 
Female. So like P. fultoni Ckll. that I hesitated to separate it, but it is 
definitely distinct from the type of that species as follows : — Teguke rufous (not 
the clear rufo-fulvous of P. fultoni) ; wings blackish, unusually dark, with darker 
stigma and very dark nervures ; area of metathorax large, with no crescentic 
margin, the surface covered with strongly wrinkled rugae ; middle, tibiae red at 
base (as also are the anterior ones) : abdomen very dark red, the same colour 
throughout, the margins of the third and fourth tergites coloured like the rest. 
The venter has much white hair. 
Victoria, 1923 ( E . 1 Vilson) ; Queensland Museum. 
Paraspheeodes submoratus sp. n. 
Female. Length about 7-6 mm. ; head and thorax black, with thin 
white hair, becoming pale brown dorsally and even black on vertex ; clypeus 
and tubercles entirely black ; antennae black ; clypeus moderately shining, with 
scattered punctures, no median groove ; front dull, somewhat shining at sides ; 
mesothorax slightly shining, excessively finely punctured, median groove distinct ; 
cheeks and pleura with conspicuous long white hair ; scutellum bigibbous, the 
elevations shining ; area of metathorax large, the basal part finely plicate, 
no distinct shining rim ; under the microscope the area shows a very delicate 
cross- 1 ineolation ; posterior truncation very small ; tegulse rufescent, very dark ; 
wings dilute brown, stigma reddish brown, nervures dark fuscous ; second 
cubital cell broad, first recurrent nervure meeting the intercubitus ; legs black ; 
abdomen chestnut red, the apical tergite blackened ; hind margins of segments 
testaceous ; no hair-patches ; venter with white hair. 
Russell Falls, National Park, Tasmania, Jan. 10, 1925 (A. J. Turner) ; 
Queensland Museum. In my manuscript table it runs to P. lichatus Sm., but it is 
evidently distinct. P. lichatus is a much larger insect. 
Paraspheeodes submeracus sp. n. 
Female. Length a little over 9 mm, ; head and thorax dull black, 
robust, with rather abundant erect white hair (entirely white dorsally) ; mandibles 
very faintly reddish subapically ; clypeus and tubercles entirely black ; head 
