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Polistes fastidiosus, Sauss. 
Polistes fastidiosus, Sauss. Etud. Fam. Vesp. ii. (1853) p. 60; Gerst. 
Peters’s Reise n. Mossamb., Zool. v. (1862) p. 470; Magr. Ann. Mus. 
Civ. Gen. xxi. (1884) p. 607. 
Three workers from Cape Colony (Mrs. White & Schin- 
land). 
Tribe ANTHOPHILA. 
Family Colletide. 
Genus Prosopis, Fabr. 
Prosopis perniz, sp. n. 
?. Black; a broad vertical line on the clypeus, a spot at 
the base of each mandible, the orbits of the eyes anteriorly 
and posteriorly, broadly interrupted at the vertex, and a broad 
short transverse line on the scutellum yellow; pilosity reddish 
yellow, long and sparse except on the sides and front of the 
pronotum, where it is dense and forms a broad transverse 
streak ; head in front closely punctured, the punctures 
shallow; the face round the base of the antenne slightly 
concave, opaque ; vertex, occiput, sides of the head behind 
the eyes, and thorax smooth, with a few scattered punctures ; 
the cordate area at base of median segment above concave 
and minutely rugulose; legs polished, pilosity fairly abun- 
dant, dense on the posterior pair of tibiz and on the tarsi, 
giving them a reddish appearance. Wings hyaline, slightly 
fuscous; nervures, stigma, and tegule brown. Abdomen 
slightly shining, covered somewhat thickly with small pili- 
gerous tubercles and punctures, the apical margins of the 
segments testaceous. 
6. Similar in sculpture, form, and pilosity, but the man- 
dibles are entirely yellow ; the vertical streak on the clypeus 
broadens and coalesces anteriorly with the yellow on the 
inner orbits; no transverse yellow streak on the scutellum. 
Length, 2? 8-10, ¢ 7; exp., ? 16-19, ¢ 14 millim. 
Hab. Recorded from Durban (A. Ross). 
Twelve females and two males. One specimen (a female) 
has the disk of the apical two abdominal segments red, but in 
sculpture and form is identical with the rest. 
Prosopis sandaracata, sp. n. 
?. Black, the anterior four fifths of the clypeus, the poste- 
rior margin of the pronotum broadly, a spot beneath the 
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