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behind ; middle tibise blacky with the extreme base yellowish, 

 and a pale reddish subapical stripe in front ; hind tibiae black, 

 with about the basal two fifths light yellow ; tarsi with the 

 first joint yellowish or reddish, the others infuscated ; abdomen 

 black, rather narrow, moderately shinv. 



Hab. Hobart, Tasmania (/. /. Walker, 3249). 



Prosopis primuli/jicia, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length about 4^ mm. 



Slender, black, head and thorax dull, the abdomen slightly 

 reddish and with a silky lustre ; markings bright primrose- 

 yellow, including labrum, mandibles, face up to leiel of 

 antenuse, and sending a pointed projection on each side a 

 little way up orbital margin, collar, and tubercles ; scape with 

 a yellow stripe beneath ; flagellum long, light yellowish 

 fulvous beneath (contrasting with the shining dark funicle), 

 above dark fuscous; tegulae dark. Wings hyaline and 

 strongly iridescent, the apical field somewhat dusky, and the 

 upper half of the marginal cell more strongly so ; nervures 

 and stigma piceous ; second s.in. very short, much less than 

 half length of first, receiving second r. n. at its extreme 

 apex, but the first r. n. enters the apical part of the first 

 s.m. ; area of the metathorax finely granular, minutely 

 somewhat plicate basally, defined only by an impressed line ; 

 femora black, the anterior ones yellow at apex ; anterior 

 tibiae yellow, with a large reddish-fuscous spot behind ; 

 middle tibite black in the middle and yellow at each end, 

 the yellow connected by a narrow band in front ; hind tibiae 

 black with nearly the basal half yellow ; tarsi yellow, the 

 hind tarsi fuscous with only the basal half of the rirst joint 

 yellow. 



JIah. Queensland {Gilbert Turner, Ridg. 11. 91, 714). 



Prosopis baudineusis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 4| mm. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen deep blue ; sometimes some 

 green tints on face, which is without light markings ; 

 antennae dark, the flagellum sometimes more or less ferru- 

 ginous; mesothorax shining and strongly punctured ; collar 

 dark, but tubercles mainly white, with a black dot ; base of 

 metathorax shining, no well-detined enclosure ; tegulae 

 piceous. Wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures and stigma 

 piceous ; second s.m. not far from square, receiving the 

 recurrent nervures at the extreme base and apex. Legs black ; 

 middle tibiae with a white spot atba^^e; hind tibia: with the 



