306 ]\lr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



but not linear, extending far above antennae, notched by tlie 

 antennal sockets, and ending in a point a little away from 

 orbit; scape ivory- colour in front ; flagellum bright ferrugi- 

 nous beneath ; front, vertex, and niesothorax very densely 

 and minutely punctured ; upper edge of prothorax with a 

 very narrow yellow band, interrupted in middle ; tubercles 

 orange-yellow, but no spot behind ; scutellum and post- 

 scutellum bright orange, very smooth, the anterior edge of 

 orange of scutellum gently convex; area of metathorax 

 shining, with a sericeous surface and a fine transverse line ; 

 tegulae black. Legs black, anterior and middle tibiae with a 

 whitish spot near apex ; anterior tibije in front and their tarsi 

 ferruginous ; first abdominal segment with very strong punc- 

 tures, second and third with finer ones ; no ventral teeth ; 

 first r. n. joins first t.-c. 



Runs in table near P. elongata, as follows : — 



Cljpeus and lateral marks ivory-colour aureomaculata, Ckll. 



Clypeus yellow 1. 



1. Supraclypeal mark present; niesothorax 

 minutely and densely punctured ; ante- 

 rior tibiae and tarsi red ; a constriction 

 between first and second dorsal abdominal 



segments elongata, Sm. 



No supraclypeal mark houpstn, Sin., similliyna, 



Sm., and metailica, Sm. 



Hah. Kuranda, Queensland {Dodd). Type in British 



Museum. 



Prosopis permiranda^ sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 8 ram. 



Rather robust ; head and thorax dark green ; abdomen 

 purple, with green shades. Wings long, clear, with the 

 apical margin dusky ; stigma and nervures sepia-brown ; 

 second s.m. considerably broader than high, receiving both 

 recurrent nervures. Head and thorax with pale yellow 

 markings consisting of longitudinal stripes, three on face, one 

 from anterior ocellus to very near clypeal margin, and one on 

 each side along orbits, the latter ending in a fine line at top 

 of eye ; a subpyriform light yellow mark on each side of 

 lateral ocelli and a rather broad band along hind margins of 

 eyes ; on thorax the upper edge of prothorax is light, a band 

 extends from tubercles backwards across pleura, and another 

 across the loWer part of pleura (bent downwards anteriorly) ; 

 the mesothorax has four narrow bands; rather broad bands 

 extend from axillae across scutellum and postscutellum, to end 

 in a narrow stripe (detached from rest of band) on each side 



