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previously known, is about (H mm. long, black, with much 

 loose long hair, which is faintly ochreous above ; antennae 

 dark, the flagellum very faintly reddish beneath; all the tarsi 

 light reddish ; anterior tibia' ferruginous basal ly and in 

 front ; hind tibiae chestnut-red, with glittering white hairs; 

 all the knees red. 



Pachyprosopis aurantipes, sp. n. 



$. — Black, with bright orange-yellow legs and scape; 

 flagellum pale fulvous, dusky above; labrum and mandibles 

 yellow ; eyes converging below and face densely covered 

 with appressed, shining, light brownish-golden hair. Except 

 for the sexual differences, this looks exactly like P. ango- 

 phor<p., Ckll., but it seems to be a distinct species, haviug the 

 mesothorax and scutellum sparsely and feebly punctured, 

 whereas they are closely punctured in angophora. 



Hub. " Windsor, Victoria" {French; Froggatt, 197). 



The following key separates the species of Euryglossa and 

 Paclujjjrosopis described above from each other and from 

 several other species : — 



Mesothorax red 1. 



Mesothorax not red 2. 



1. Postscutellum red ; wings dusky E. ephippiata, Sm. 



Postscutellum black ; wings clear E. aurescens, Ckll. 



2. Mesothorax blue. (Croydon; Fulton, 



Nat. Mas. Vict. li>8.) Pach. hcematostoma, Ckll. 



Mesothorax black (very faintly greenish 

 in E. inconspicua) 3. 



3. Mesothorax with yellow stripes and 



margin E. tridenti/rons, Ckll. 



Mesothorax without yellow stripes and 

 margin ( rudiments of these in E. calli- 

 opsiformis, var. <i) 4. 



4. Face with light markings 5. 



Face all dark 6. 



5. Light markings two large creamy-white 



lateral marks E. albocuiieata, ( !kll. 



Light markings yellow, and not con lined 



to lateral marks: faint traces of yellow 



mesothoracic bands. (" Rutherglen, var. a. 



Victoria": French, Froggatt, 17U.) .. E. callwpsifurmis, Ckll., 



(i. Legs entirely bright orange Pack, aurantipes, Ckll. 



Legs not so 7. 



7. Male flagellum black, with a red ring on 



two and a hall' joints E. cincticornis, Ckll. 



Male flagellum beneath light fulvous, 



with the apex broadly black, con- 

 trasting : hind tibiae black E. apicalis, < 'kll, 



Flagellum otherwise 8. 



