346 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



tubercles red, strongly carinate, covered behind with dense 

 cream-coloured tomentum ; rest of thorax black ; scntellum 

 very coarsely rugoso-punctate, postscutellum dull and 

 granular ; area of metathorax with a row of plicae at the 

 base and one on each postero-lateral side, the latter broad at 

 the sides, but toward the middle narrowing to a line of pits; 

 sides of metathorax, as seen from behind, with only a 

 single projecting point, but there are two nodules on each 

 side near the upper corners, only noticed in an oblique view ; 

 pleura coarsely rugoso-punctate ; tegulse light fulvo-ferru- 

 ginous. Wings strongly smoky, paler basally : stigma and 

 nervures rufo-fuscous ; venation essentially as in C picia, 

 but first r. n. joius second s.m. well beyond the middle, and 

 third s.m. is less contracted above. Legs ferruginous, hind 

 tibia with a loose white scopa ; hind tibial knee-plate greatly 

 elongated, hind spur with only a microscopical ciliation. 

 Abdomen black, Avith the base and apex of first segment and 

 second segment almost entirely dull red ; first segment 

 polished and shining, with very sparse minute punctures ; 

 second shining, but closely and distinctly punctured except 

 in middle; remaining segments closely and finely punctured, 

 but clothed with fiue and short, appressed, golden-brown 

 hair, the apical region with long pale reddish hair. 



Hab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd). British Museum. The 

 exact locality is unknown. 



Nearest to C turnerorum, Ckll., also from Queensland, 

 but easily known by the colours, the rugose sculpture, &c. 



Pi'osopis kalamundcE, sp. n, 



$ . — Length about 7*5 mm. 



Head and thorax black, with bright chrome-yellow 

 markings, consisting of large lateral face-marks (filling space 

 between clypeus and eye, and extending upward with the 

 form of a closed hand with the index-finger, which is very 

 short, pointed), swollen upper border of prothorax, tubercles, 

 large semilunar patch behind tubercles, scntellum, and 

 postscutellum (except at sides). Legs black, the anterior 

 tibiae with an obscure yellow spot at base. Abdomen 

 shining steel-blue ; clypeus aciculate, somewhat depressed 

 in middle; front and vertex shining, with strong well- 

 separated punctures ; mesothorax shining, with large, irre- 

 gular, scattered punctures ; area of metathorax with a basal 

 channel crossed by plicse, and below this, on each side, a 

 strong oblique ridge ; pleura uith widely separated punc- 

 tures. Legs with fine silky white hau- ; tegulse black. 



