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Hah. Mackay, Queensland (Turner). British Museum. 



Two are from flowers o£ Cassia, Dec. 1899. Four are 

 from Eucalyptus flowers, also Dee. 1899. Two were col- 

 lected March 1900. 



Prosopis nubilosella, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 7 mm. 



Superficially like P. .vanthaspis, with which I had confused 

 it, but easily distinguished by the following- characters : — Face 

 not entirely black, but with three minute yellow marks, a 

 narrow cuneiform one on clypeus, and a short line along each 

 orbital margin at sides of front. Wings considerably larger 

 and longer, with the apical field distinctly dusky ; second 

 submarginal cell considerably larger and longer, receiving 

 the recurrent nervures some distance from its base and apex. 

 Abdomen pure black, distinctly punctured, with the apical 

 part more hairy. In the table of Prosopis it runs to 43 if the 

 minute face-markings are overlooked ; otherwise it runs to 

 P. nubilosa, Smith, to which it is evidently closely related, 

 differing in the smaller size, rounder head, larger punctures 

 of mesothorax, &c. 



Bab. Mackay, Queensland, May 1900 (Turner, 692). 

 British Museum. 



Another was taken April 1899, at flowers of Xanthorrhcea. 



Prosopis nubilosa subnubilosa, Ckll. 



This subspecies was described from the female. The male 

 is smaller (size and appearance of ? nubilosella), with a 

 narrower face, the clypeus creamy-white except a narrow 

 cuneiform black mark on each side, the scape with a white 

 mark in front, and the upper border of prothorax with a very 

 fine interrupted yellow line. This is nearly the same as 

 P. aureomaculata, Ckll., differing by the absence of a supra- 

 clypeal mark and in the venation. The second submarginal 

 oil receives the recurrent nervures some distance from apex 

 and base. 



Hub. Mackay, Queensland, at flowers of Leptospermum, 

 Aug. 1900 [Turner). British Museum. 



Prosopis bicuneata, sp. n. 



$ . — Length nearly 6 mm. 



Black, the abdomen faintly bluish; face-markings con- 

 sisting of broad-cuneate bright lemon-yellow lateral marks 

 filling the space between clypeus and eyes, pointed below 

 rather obliquely truncate above ; clypeus finely strialulate, 



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