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



nervures dark ; second s.m. long, receiving both recurrent 

 nervures. Abdomen very finely punctured, scarcely at all 

 hairy. 



Hab. Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland, Nov. 20, 1911 

 {H. Hacker). Queensland Museum, 33. 



Runs in my table of Prosopis to the vicinity of P. amicula, 

 from which it is easily known by the reduced face-markings. 

 It resembles in its markings P, flavojugata^ CklL, but that 

 species has a much shorter head, the yellow spots on the 

 face lower down, and the quadrate second submarginal cell 

 entirely different from that of kelvini. In P. amicula also 

 this cell is very much shorter than in kelvini. The second 

 s.m. of kelvini is formed much as in P. alcyonea (Erichs.), 

 >vhiph is in other respects a totally different insect. 



Prosopis leai, sp. n. 



(J . — Length about 6| mm. 



Rather slender ; the abdomen subclavate, narrowed 

 basally; black, with yellow markings; head moderately 

 elongate, face below antennse yellow (reddened by cyanide in 

 type), the very broad supraclypeal mark obtusely rounded or 

 subtruncate above, the lateral marks ending abruptly at 

 level of antennse, the lower margin of clypeus dark ; scape 

 with a yellowish mark in front ; flagellum long, ferruginous 

 beneath ; the large tubercles, scutellum, and postscutellum, 

 with a small elongate mark touching each anterior corner of 

 .scutellum, very bright chrome-yellow ; no other yellow on 

 thorax ; mesothorax dull, the dense punctures so minute as 

 to give the effect of a minutely granular surface ; area of 

 metathorax shining, without distinct sculpture. Legs black ; 

 anterior tibise ferruginous in front ; tegulse piceous. Wings 

 dusky at apex ; neryures and stigma dark ; first r. n. joining 

 first t.-c. ; second s.m. longer below than high, but not much 

 elongated. Abdomen dull, scarcely hairy ; venter normal. 



Hab. National Park, New South Wales {Lea, 10716). 

 Froggatt Coll. 143. 



Best compared with P. chrysognatha , Ckll., and P. apo- 

 suara, Ckll., from both of which it differs by the much finer 

 sculpture of the mesothorax. The broad supraclypeal area 

 also separates it at once from P. aposuara. The second 

 submarginal cell is shorter than in chrysognatha. 



