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and ill the niiiKUe line as n low triangular (.^upraclypoal) 

 projection, truncate apically ; scape a little swollen, entirely 

 l)riglit yellow; legs yellow except the trochanters, coxaj, and 

 hind teniora, which are l)lack, the hind femora having a small 

 yellow spot at apex ; first r. n. entering extreme corner of 

 first s.ni. ; third ventral segment of abdomen with u pair of 

 small tuherclcs, but no ridge between. 



JIu/>. Victoria, 2 ? , 1 d* {C. F.). Turner Collection, 

 Biitish Museum. 



The male runs near to P. bihtberculala, Sm., and hidentata, 

 Sm., but is easily separated by the entirely yellow tibiae and 

 tarsi. 



Prosopia cassice^ sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



Robust, red and black, with cream-coloured markin_::s on 

 head and thorax ; head and thorax strongly punctured, the 

 punctures of raesothorax very large, irregularly placed, 

 well separated ; head large, red, with broad (semicircular in 

 outline) dull yellow lateral marks on face; antennie red, the 

 flagellum dusky above toward apex ; tongue as in Prosopis ; 

 thorax black, with two marks on prothoras above, tubercle.", 

 small crescent behind, scutellum (except anteriorly, where 

 the |iale colour is trilobed by the sublateral incursion of the 

 black) and postscutellum (except sides) all cream-colour; 

 legs dark, the anterior tibiae clear ferruginous in front ; 

 tegulae dark rufo-fuscous, with a small white spot in front. 

 Wings clear, nervures and stigma brown ; b. n. falling short 

 of t.-m. ; first r. n. meeting first t.-c. ; second r.n. joining 

 second s.m. near apex. Abdomen dark chestnut-rod with a 

 faint purplish lustre ; first segment quite dark, with a sub- 

 apical red band ; venter blackish. 



JIdh. Mackay, Queensland {Turner, 861). Brit. Museum. 

 At flnwers of Cassia (Dec. ISOiQ, Eugenia (Nov. 1899), and 

 XanlJiorrhoM (April 1899). 



Differs from all other species by its red head and abdomen, 

 light face-marks, and cream-coloured thoracic markings. 



Prosoj is avialUf Ckll. 

 Mackay, Queensland, March 1900 ( Turner, 1050). 



Prosoiiis pachygnatha, sj). n. 



$ . — Length 8i mm. 



Kuns in my table of Australian Prosopis to 19, and runs 

 out because lateral face-marks are roughly foot-shaped, the 



