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below tubeiclo.s reduced to a small spot, and a small spot 

 behind tubercles, ami the scutellum without a dark line ; 

 abdomen black, with two red S[)ot.s on first S(';^meut, a trans- 

 verse yellow mark on each side of secontl, and two large 

 transverse marks on third in tlie subdorsal region ; logs 

 coloured as in the male. 



Hub. Mackay, Queensland {Turner). British Museum. 



The male is no. G9j, Feb. 1892 ; the female no. iO 1, 

 May lUOO. 



Prosopis serotinella (Ckll.). 



I am indebted to Mr. R. E. Turner for three females from 

 l^Iackay, two from flowers of Cassia, Dec. 1891^, one from 

 Kngenia, Nov. 1899. In the original type of Prosopisteron 

 serotinelluin it appeared that the stigma was enormously 

 eidarged, invading the whole of the marginal cell; but the 

 now specimens clearly show that this was merely due to 

 extreme infuscation, as the stigma can be scon with its usual 

 boundary, the marginal cell beyond in the Cassia specimens 

 being very distinctly paler. The m3uth-|)arts are those of 

 Prosopis; the maxillary blade is very broad, broadly rounded 

 apically, with many bristles, not suddenly narrowed in the 

 a])ical region as it is in the European P. confusa. (The 

 American P. asinina is intermediate between P. serotinella 

 and P. confusa in regard to the maxillary blade.) 



The name Prosopisteron cannot have more than subgeneric 

 or sectional value. 



Prosopis chrt/saspis, Ckll., var. a. 



? . — Flagellum dark; nervures and stigma piocous. 

 J/ab. Victoria (C/^.). Turner Collection, British Museum. 



Prosojds nubilosa, Smith. 

 Victoria {C. P.). Turner Collection, British Museum. 



Prosopis nubilosa subnubilosa, subsp. n. 



? . — Lateral face-marks broader, touching supraclypeal 

 area ; no distinct dark cloud in apical region of wing ; fust 

 r. n. entering extreme base of second s.m. 



J lab. Mackay, May 1900 {Tamer, 271). 



I'rosppis eugeniella, sp. n. 



? . — Length 3|^4 mm. 

 Black, Very minutely j'Uuctured, witli tiic following partd 



