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only gently arched, nearlj' reaching t.m. ; first r.n. entering extreme 

 basal corner of second s.m,, which is elongate, much broader than 

 high; legs black, partly ornamented with silvery- white hair, last 

 joint of anterior tarsi reddened; abdomen shining with rather small 

 but strong punctures, apex with black hair. 



Habitat. — King Island, Tasmania (J. A. Kershaw; Vict. Nat. Mus. 

 206). Runs in my table to P. rotundiceps Sm., but the head is not 

 round, the flagellum is black, and the abdomen is not minutely 

 and closely punctured. 

 Prosopis leucosphaera n. sp. 



9 . Leng-th a little over 9 mm.; robust, black, with the abdomen 

 obscurely dark bluish; clypeus wholly black, dullish, with very 

 shallow punctures; lateral face-marks a sort of dilute orange, large, 

 cuneiform, obtuse below, somewhat obliquely broadly truncate 

 above, antennae black, the flagellum with a contrasting bright 

 ferruginous stripe beneath; lower part of front, broadly elevated 

 in middle; vertex with coarse black hair; mesothorax strongly and 

 ciuite densely punctured; tubercles cream-color; a large circular 

 cream-colored patch on scutellum and postscutellum, crossed by a 

 black (sutural) line; area of metathorax coarsely corrugated at base; 

 tegulse black, punctured in front; wings hyaline, very faintly dusky; 

 first r.n. entering basal corner of the long second s.m.; legs and 

 abdomen essentially as in P. xanthosphcera, but punctures of second 

 abdominal segment smaller and closer. 



Habitat.— Croydon, Australia (S. W. Fulton; Nat. Mus. Vict. 

 167). Closel}' related to P. xanthosphcera, differing not only in 

 color of the markings, but also in the finer punctures of the second 

 abdominal segment. In my table of Prosopis it can be run to 12 

 or to 38, running out at either place' because of the cream-colored 

 patch on the scutella. 



Prosopis chromatica (Cockerell). 



Stradbroke Island {H. Hacker; Queensl. Mus. 66). One male 

 taken Oct. 2, 1911. 

 Prosopis hsematopoda n. sp. 



9. Length about 7 mm.; tile-red and black, like P. lateralis 

 Smith, of which it may be a subspecies. It differs from lateralis 

 by the lateral face-marks, which are orange instead of white; and 

 the femora entirely red, as also the middle and hind trochanters. 

 Tibise and tarsi entirely red; metathorax entirely dull black, the 

 area roughened, and shaped like the profile of a cup; first r.n. 



