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der abdomen; labrum and mandibles black; pale lemon yellow 
lateral and clypeal marks, the former extending a short distance 
above level of antennse, acutely angulate above and below, the 
upper inner side shorter than the lower inner; clypeal mark 
a very broad band, truncate submarginate above, and with a 
small projection at each side of base; scape black, rather robust; 
flagellum long, coffee brown beneath ; head very finely punctured ; 
mesothorax finely and closely punctured, punctures of scutellum 
larger, but dense; base of metathorax polished and shining; 
end of tubercles and two marks on upper margin of prothorax 
yellow; ventral surface of thorax with white hair; tegulse 
piceous, with no light spot; wings somewhat dusky, the apical 
region decidedly brown; stigma dark reddish brown; first re- 
current nervure meeting first transverse cubital, but second 
recurrent going beyond end of second submarginal cell ; anterior 
tibiae yellow in front, but legs otherwise dark, except that hind 
basitarsi are a little pallid at base ; abdomen shining, with very 
fine punctures on second and following segments; lateral hind 
margins of segments with poorly developed white hair bands. 
Luzon, Benguet, Baguio {Baker) . Easily distinguished from 
Prosopis contradicta and P. mindanensis by the shining base of 
metathorax. 
Prosopis contradicta sp. nov. 
Male. — Length, about 6 millimeters ; black, with yellow mark- 
ings as follows: Small mark above apical margin of clypeus, 
narrow lateral face marks (shining on inner side) narrowly 
continued up orbital margin some distance above antennse, rather 
narrowly interrupted band on prothorax, spots on tubercles and 
tegulffi, and anterior tibiae in front. Scape short ; flagellum long, 
dark coffee brown beneath; sides of front with rather large 
punctures; mesothorax and scutellum distinctly shining, finely 
but very distinctly punctured; area of metathorax elongated, 
dull and rough, but the oblique lateral margins shining; abdo- 
men reddish black; segments (including first) with very minute 
sparse punctures. 
Negros, Cuernos Mountains (from Baker). Somewhat re- 
lated to P. mustela Vachal, from Burma. 
Prosopis luzonica Cockerell. 
Prosopis luzonica COCKERELL, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1914), VIII, 
14 , 364 ($) ; (1915), 16 , 486 {<S) ■ 
Luzon, Mount Maquiling and Mount Banahao {Baker). 
