Records of Bee-f. 423 



middle ; marks at bases of tibiae cream-colour. Schrottky 

 only descril)ed the male. 



Sail Bernardino, Paraguay, Oct. 21 (A'. Fiehrig^. U.S. 

 Tsat. Museum. 



Pi'osopis flavohumeralis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 6 mm., anterior wing 4'5. 



Black, M'ith yellow markings ; mandibles ferruginous ; 

 labruni black ; clypeus yellow except narrow lower margin 

 and a stripe on each side, failing above ; supraclypeal mark 

 broadly subtriangular, while above it, on front, are two 

 narrow yellow marks close together; lateral face-marks 

 extending nearly to summit of eye, where they are broadlv 

 but very obliquely truncate, and diverge a little from the 

 orbital margin ; ^:cape and flagellum dusky ferruginous 

 beneath, darker above ; front very densely and minutely 

 punctured, vertex more coarsely ; tubercles and the sharp 

 j)rojecting anterior lateral angles of prothorax yellow, but 

 no other yellow on thorax ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 ])erfectly dull and coarsely punctured; area of metathorax 

 with raised lines in the form of a square, but without the 

 sculpture, except a microscopical cancellation all over ; 

 posterior truncation distinct ; tegulse with a yellow spot. 

 Wings dusky ; recurrent nervures meeting transverso- 

 cubitals ; marginal cell broad (deep). Legs with anterior 

 tibiae yellow in front, the others at base ; tarsi more or less 

 reddish. Abdomen shining, without hair-bands ; first seg- 

 ment distinctly though minutely punctured, second and 

 third extremely sparsely and indistinctly. 



San Bernardino, Paraguay [K. Fiebrig). U.S. Nat. 

 Museum. 



In Schrottky's tables of Paraguay species this runs to 

 P. itapuens'is, Sky., but differs by the dusky wings and spots 

 on angles of prothorax. It seems to closely resemble 

 P. lychnis, Vachal, differing in the punctuation of the 

 abdomen. 



Prosopis howardiella, ap. n. 



(J . — Length about 3"5 mm. 



Head all black except a large obtusely trilobed (the sides 

 concave) pale yellow patch on clypeus; scape black; 

 fiagellum thick, ferruginous beneath ; thorax entirely black ; 

 mesothorax and scutellum with sparse very minute punctures 

 on a microscopically tessellate surface; area of metathorax 



