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on mesotliorax ; bright Prussian green, the abdomen a bluer 

 green except near the sutures, the first two segments strongly 

 suffused with purple al)0ve ; light markings bright chrome- 

 yellow, except those of the head, which are pellucid grey, 

 but one has the upper end of the median facial stripe yellow, 

 and probably the markings should all be of that colour when 

 fully mature ; wings hyaline, nervures dark. Head elon- 

 gated, the facial quadrangle nearly twice as long as broad ; 

 inner orbital margins a!)ove gently concave ; mandibles 

 wholly dark, strongly ridged ; light markings of head con- 

 sisting of a stripe behind the eyes and three nearly parallel 

 stripes on the face, the middle one going up to the middle 

 ocellus, the lateral ones failing a short distance before top of 

 eye ; scape long and wholly dark ; flagellum ferruginous 

 beneath ; hind border of prothorax (continuous in middle, 

 but not reaching tubercles), tubercles, spot on tegulae, 

 triangular spot just below wings, scutellum and post- 

 scutellum (except lateral corners) all yellow; basal area of 

 metathorax triangular, not bounded by a ridge, but abruptly 

 defined by the absence of punctures, finely shagreeued, 

 shining green, appearing purplish in some lights ; legs 

 brown-blaek, a light yellow spot at base of anterior and 

 middle tibiaj ; apex of al)domen with black hairs. The base 

 of the metathorax is radically different from that of P. dis- 

 juncta and P. albonitens, but is of quite the same type as 

 that of P. varicolor, which is closely allied. 



Hub. Queensland [Gilbert Turner, 852, Ridg. 11.93, and 

 272 Hy.). Two. 



Prosopis perviridis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm. 



Strongly punctured, the punctures of the mesothorax well 

 separated on a shining ground ; brilliant green, even 

 including the legs, except the tarsi, the metallic colour of 

 which is purplish ; wings hyaline, with dark nervures. Plead 

 broad and not especially long; mandibles and scape dark, 

 flagellum ferruginous beneath ; median and lateral stripes on 

 face and stripe behind eyes light chrome-yellow ; the median 

 stripe is expanded on clypeal margin to look like the head of 

 a nail in profile; in the supraclypeal area it is represented 

 by a round mark, and above that it is shaped like a spear- 

 head, not reaching the ocellus ; the lateral stripes have a 

 linear extension to the top of the eyes; hind border of 

 prothorax with two yellow stripes, but tubercles wholly 

 green; a small light yellow spot just beneath the wings and 

 a streak on axillae ; tegulte green in front, with no light 

 Ann. tf; Ma(/. N. Hist. Ser. 7. l^ol. xvi. 27 



