OP HTMENOPTEEA EEOM STJMATBA, ETC. 91 



sharp point or tooth ; the wmgs fulvous, the tegulse fulvous. The 

 apical margins of the second and three following segments of the 

 abdomen ferruginous, the terminal segment entirely so. 

 Hab. New Guinea. 



Fam. ANDEENID^, Leach. 

 Gren. Peosopis, Fabr. 



1. Prosopis elegans. p. capite thoraceque viridibus, flavo pulchre 

 pictis; abdomine purpureo, splendide micantej pedibus ferrugineisj 

 alls hyalinis, iridescentibus. 



Female. Length 3f lines. Head and thorax green, not shining, very 

 closely punctured ; the enclosed triangular space at the base of the 

 metathorax very delicately punctured ; the front with a central yellow 

 line, extending from the anterior stemma to the anterior margin of the 

 clypeus, and a similar stripe on each side, close to the inner orbit of 

 the eyes ; a nai'row yellow line behind the eyes ; the labrum yellow ; 

 the tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; the antennae fulvous beneath. 

 Thorax : the collar, a line passing over the tegulse and the sides 

 of the scutellum, a spot in the middle of the postscutellum, the tegulse, 

 and a spot behind them yellow ; the tips of the anterior femora, the 

 intermediate and posterior pairs, and all the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous, 

 the latter more or less fuscous above ; the base of the posterior tibiae 

 whitish ; wings hyaline and splendidly iridescent, the nervures testa- 

 ceous, with the costal black. Abdomen purple, splendidly iridescent, 

 changing in different lights ; the posterior margins of the first, second, 

 and third segments with a little white pubescence at the sides of the 

 abdomen. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



Gren. NoMiA, Latr. 



1. NoMiA DENTATA, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 133. 

 Hab. New Guinea. 



2. NoMiA CLAVATA, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 29. 

 Hab. Morty Island. 



3. NoMiA opuLENTA. A^. nigra; capite thoraceque punctatis, opacis; 

 abdomine nitido, segmentis ad marginem apicalem caeruleo-viridibus 

 pulchriter ornatis. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Black : the face, sides of the thorax and 

 beneath, the metathorax and legs with a cinereous pubescence ; the 

 collar and postscutellum with dense short white pubescence; the 

 antennae slightly fulvous beneath ; the wings subhyaline, their apical 

 margins clouded, the nervures testaceous, the tegulae pale testaceous ; 

 the legs rufo-testaceous. Abdomen smooth, shining, finely and 

 closely punctured ; the apical margins of the segments with fasciae of 



