30 HYMENOPTERA. 



bescence, most dense at the sides ; on the apical margin it is 

 black. 9 f 



This is probably the male of P. alcyonea of Erichson. 

 Hob. New Holland. 



44. PROSOPIS MIXTA. 



Prosopis mixtus, Smith, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. (1851). 

 Hab. India. (Mus. Hon. East India Company.) 



B. The first recurrent nervure entering the second sub- 

 marginal cell. 



45. PROSOPIS CONFUSA, n. s. B.M. 



Head and thorax black, closely punctured, the punctures on 

 the face elongate,, running into grooves at the margin of the cly- 

 peus, which is smooth and slightly elevated ; the face on each 

 side of the clypeus yellow. Thorax, the tubercles, scutellum and 

 post-scutellum yellow ; wings hyaline, slightly clouded towards 

 their apical margins, the second recurrent nervure uniting with 

 the apical one of the second submarginal cell, the first recurrent 

 nervure received a little within the second submarginal cell ; be- 

 neath, nigro-seneous, coarsely punctured, and thinly covered with 

 short white pubescence, the tibiae and tarsi clothed with similar 

 pubescence, the claws ferruginous. Abdomen, of a blue green, 

 closely and rather strongly punctured ; the margins of the seg- 

 ments violet, smooth and shining ; the anterior margin of the 

 basal segment produced in the centre, forming the apex of a 

 shining carina, which runs a short distance down the truncation 

 of the segment ; beneath coarsely punctured. 

 Hab. New Holland. 



0. Both the recurrent nervures entering the second sub- 

 marginal cell. 



46. PROSOPIS NIGRIFRONS, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black, the clypeus finely aciculate, 

 interspersed with distinct punctures. Thorax strongly punctured, 

 the tubercles and a larger patch behind, the scutellum and post- 

 scutellum yellow; the enclosed space below the post-scutellum has 

 the upper half longitudinally strigose; wings subhyaline, the 

 first recurrent nervure received about one-third from the base of 

 the second submarginal cell, the second nearly at the apex. 

 Abdomen closely punctured, more strongly so towards the apex ; 



