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corner of first s. m. ; second s. m. about as broad as high ; anterior legs 

 inserted far from the other pairs, which are close together ; legs bright 

 yellow, anterior femora and tibiae with dusky spots behind, middle femora 

 with a black patch beneath, middle tibiae with a large black saddle-like 

 patch, hind femora black (but trochanters yellow), hind tibiae with nearly 

 apical three-fifths black, hind tarsi dusky except at base ; abdomen 

 shining. 



Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland, October 3, 1912 (Hacker; 

 Queensland Mus., 128). Runs in my table of Prosopis (except that 

 abdomen has some red) to 36, and falls near P. primulipida and P. 

 minuscula. It is much smaller and more slender than primulipida ; the 

 general appearance is that of minuscula, but the face markings are quite 

 different. 



Prosopis bacillaria, new species. 



Male : Length about 4 mm. ; slender, like P. pulchripes, but differ- 

 ing as follows : Face broader ; malar space yellow, but no yellow extend- 

 ing on cheeks ; lateral face marks above level of antennae rapidly narrow- 

 ing, ending in a slender point ; mesothorax dull ; yellow of upper border 

 of prothorax reduced to a pair of short lines ; tegulae brown, with a yel- 

 low spot ; b. n. ending nearer t. m. ; anterior femora black, yellow at 

 apex (but trochanters yellow) ; middle femora black, yellow at apex, and 

 their tibiae broadly black in middle ; the claviform abdomen even a little 

 more slender, entirely black, the first three segments dull, with shining 

 apical margins, the others shining. 



Habitat : Brisbane, August 10, 1913 (Hacker ; Queensland Mus., 

 118). 



Palseorhiza parallela disrupta, new variety (subspecies?). 



Female : Rather less robust than usual, with the yellow of the scutel- 

 lum divided into two very broad oblique lateral bands ; postscutellum 

 yellow with a small green mark in middle ; facial stripes chrome yellow 

 instead of ivory color, as also the stripes cJong posterior orbits ; subquad- 

 rate yellow patch behind tubercles present ; tibiae broadly yellow at base, 

 basal two-fifths of hind tibiae yellow. 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland (Dodd ; Queensland Mus., 127). 

 A curious variety or subspecies, or possibly species, with some approach 

 to P. permiranda in its characters. 



