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]innctiired, sides of face more coarsely ; a pale yellow band 

 along posterior orbits; scape thick, black above, ferruginous 

 below; flagellum light ferruginous, strongly dusky above ; 

 mesothorax dullish, microscopically tessellate and shallowly 

 punctate ; scutellum and postscutellum black ; tubercles and 

 two short lines on upper border of prothorax yellow ; coxai 

 and trochanters marked with pale yellow ; femora black, the 

 anterior and middle ones yellow in front, and apically above ; 

 anterior tarsi yellow, the others blackish, with light base ; 

 tegulaj small, rufo-testaceous. Wings dusky hyaline, ner- 

 vures and stigma reddish-sepia ; first r. n. meeting tirst t.-c, 

 second joining second s.m. near apex. Abdomen broad, 

 shallowly emarginate at apex ; first segment red dorsally 

 and along hind margin laterally ; second segment with a 

 reddish median patch. 



IJab. Yallingup, S.W. Australia, Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 1913 

 {R. E. Turner). Brit. Museum. 



A very distinct species, running in my table of Australian 

 Prosopis to the vicinity of P. rujipes, 8m., but easily known 

 from this and allied species by the deep yellow face-marks. 



Gnathoprosopis rowlandi, sp. n. 



c? . — Length about 5 mm. 



Black, with yellow markings, largely reddened by cyanide 

 in the type ; face much narrower than in G. hackeri, wholly 

 pale (light tan, but probably originally pale yellow) below 

 antenme, the lateral marks extending above with much the 

 form of a hand with index-finger pointed (as in G. euxantha) ; 

 scape very broad, dark above, wholly lemon-yellow below ; 

 cheeks wholly black; flagellum ferruginous beneath; pro- 

 thorax with the thickened upper margin and the tubercles 

 red, but evidently originally bright yellow; no other yellow 

 on thorax; mesothorax extremely finely punctured. Le^-s 

 yellow, with the coxa^ and trochanters, the hind femora, and 

 the other femora basally above, black ; hind tarsi blackened 

 apically; tegulae piceous, with a rufous spot. Wings dusky 

 hyaline, stigma and nervures fuscous; first r. n. meetin^j- 

 first t.-c. Abdomen broad, shining, finely punctured ; third 

 ventral segment with a pair of well-developed tubercles, but 

 no ridge between. 



JJab. Yallingup, S.W. Australia, Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 1913 

 (i?. E. Turner). Brit. Museum. 



Allied to G. hituberculata (Sm.), but differing in various 

 details of coloration. Also allied to G. euxunt/m (Ckll.j, 



