Records of Dees. Ill 



Pachyprosopis angophorte, sp. n. 



(^ . — Leng;th about 6 mm. 



IJIack, wliolly without metallic lustre; legs and scape 

 bright chrome-yellow ; Hagellum yellow suffused with fer- 

 ruginous, the last four joints black, and a blackish suffusion 

 extending down the upper side of four more ; scape thick ; 

 clypeus and supraclypeal area brilliantly shining, sparsely 

 punctured ; mouth-parts prosopiform, maxillary palpi quite 

 long; head as in Eurijglossa, not specially enlarged ; front 

 densely punctured ; mesothorax and scutellum finely and 

 distinctly, but less densely, punctured ; a beaded furrow 

 runs along hind margin of postscutcllum ; tcgulae brownish 

 piceous, with a yellow spot. Wings clear, with dark reddish- 

 brown nervures and stigma ; venation as usual in the genus ; 

 femora broad ; hind tibiae robust ; hind basitarsus curved, 

 thickened at base, with an inward projection, beyond this 

 concave on the inner side, with a few curved erect spines. 

 Abdomen broad, dullish, with asubsericeous lustre, the surface 

 under the microscope seen to be covered as densely as pos- 

 sible with regular, well-defined, transversely oval punctures ; 

 the mesothorax between the punctures is microscopically 

 tcssellate. 



Hab. Sydney, New South Wales, at flowers of the 

 Myrtaceous Ancjophora, December 1, 1910 {W. W. Froggatt, 

 110). Two specimens. 



Very distinct from all other described Pachyprosopis by 

 the wholly black body. 



Pachyprosopis flavicauda, sp. n. 



? . — Length 5 mm. or sligbtly over. 



Black, with the abdomen reddisli yellow at apex and 

 partly at sides ; labrum, and mandibles except at apex, pale 

 red ; face and front brilliantly shining ; clypeus with sparse 

 distinct punctures; front microscopically reticulate, with 

 very sparse minute punctures ; clypeus low and broad, the 

 supraclypeal area very large ; head of ordinary size, as in 

 Euryglossa ; antennae ferruginous beneath, the flagellum 

 thick; mesothorax microscopically reticulated, with sparse 

 weak punctures ; abdomen with microscopical sculpture as 

 in P. angophorcc ; tegulse light rufo-testaceous ; legs pale 

 ferruginous, with the femora mainly dark, at least behind, 

 and the tibise also with large dark marks. Wings clear, 

 nervures and stigma sepia. Abdomen with the last seg- 

 ment, the penultimate (except a black band at extreme 

 base, broadly lobed in middle, not reaching sides), and the 



