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lateral face-marks running along the orbits and ending a 

 little below level of antennae. Antennas entirely bright 

 ferruginous, short, the flagellum thick, its middle joints much 

 wider than long ; knees, tibia?, and tarsi red, the middle 

 tibise with a blackish cloud on outer side ; area of metathorax 

 coarsely irregularly cancellate; thorax without light markings. 

 In the table this runs straight to P. subplebeia male. 



Proso2>is philoleucrt) sp. n. 



? . — Length about 4 mm. 



A short robust species like P. amicidiformis, but smaller, 

 and with the light markings all white — namely, broad-triangu- 

 lar lateral face-marks (ending in a point on orbit a little 

 above antennas, the upper inner side of the triangle a little 

 longer than the lower inner), tubercles, a narrow interrupted 

 line on upper border of prothorax, and a basal spot on each 

 tibia, that on hind tibia involving the basal two-fifths; 

 flagellum thick, ferruginous beneath ; front and mesothorax 

 extremely minutely punctured ; area of metathorax shining, 

 sculptured at extreme base ; tegulae very dark brown. 

 Wings clear ; second submarginal cell receiving both re- 

 current nervures. Abdomen subglobose. Huns in the table 

 to 35, and runs out because clypeus is black and face-marks 

 are white. 



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

 Museum. 



Prosopis nigrtfrons, Smith, var. a. 



? . — Length fully 10 mm. 



Front closely punctured but shining ; area of metathorax 

 elevated, granular, not strigose ; first r. n. joining second 

 s.m. more than a third from base, the distance being equal to 

 about four-fifths length of first t.-c; margins of abdominal 

 segments black. 



Bab. Victoria (C. F.). Turner Collection, British 

 Museum. 



Prosopis itamuca, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 10 mm. 



In nearly all respects agreeing with P. nigrifrons, var. a 

 (a noteworthy little feature common to both is a red spot at 

 the base of the scape), but differing thus : light markings of 

 thorax (tubercles, large patch behind, scutellum, and post- 

 scutellum) brilliant chrome-yellow or orange (lemon-yellow 



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