102 MR. smith's catalogue of htmenoptebous insects 



fusco-ferruginous at the apex ; covered with a thin changeable golden 

 pile ; each segment with a bright golden fascia on its apical margin ; 

 beneath smooth and shining, with the apical margins of the segments 

 rufo-piceous. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



Gen. L ABE AD A, Smith. 



1. Larrada exilipes. 



Larrada exilipes. Smith, Cat. Hym. pt. 4. p. 278. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



2. Larrada carbonaria. L. nigerrima; capite abdomineque nitidis; 

 thorace opaco ; alis rufescenti-fuscis, purpureo Isete micantibus. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Jet-black, shining ; the clypeus delicately 

 punctured ; the flagellum fuscous ; the cheeks with a fine cinereous 

 pile. Thorax: the pro- and meso-thorax, the scutellum and post- 

 scutellum closely punctured ; the metathorax elongate, its superior 

 surface finely shagreened ; the truncation finely strigose ; the tegulae 

 testaceous ; the wings brown, with a brilliant violet iridescence ; the 

 legs strongly spinose. Abdomen : as long as the head and thorax, 

 being smooth, shining and very delicately and sparingly punctured. 



Hab. Singapore. 



3. Larrada Sycorax. L. nigerrima, laevigata, nitida, punctata ; alis 

 fuscis violaceo-iridescentibus. 



Female. Length 7i lines. Jet-black ; shining and finely punctured ; 

 the face and cheeks covered with silvery pubescence interspersed with 

 long pale hairs ; the metathorax oblong, truncated at the apex ; the 

 superior surface with a central impressed longitudinal line, on each 

 side of which it is delicately striated obliquely. The thorax : beneath, 

 the sides and also the legs, covered with a cinereous pile, and sprinkled 

 with long white hairs ; the wings brown, with a violet iridescence ; 

 their base, as well as the posterior pair, palest. Abdomen : smooth, 

 shining and very delicately and distantly punctured ; the margins of 

 the segments slightly depressed and glittering in certain lights with 

 silvery pile. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



4. Larrada POLiTA. L. nigra; capite«abdomineque nitidis ; thorace 

 opaco ; femoribus tibiisque intermediis posticis ferrugineis ; alis fusco- 

 hyalinis. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Black ; the head shining, the clypeus closely 

 and finely punctured and covered with silvery pile; the mandibles 

 ferruginous. The pro- and meso-thorax closely punctured, thinly 

 covered with a short glittering pubescence ; the metathorax transversely 

 rugose; the thorax on the sides and beneath covered with a fine 

 changeable silvery pile; the intermediate and posterior femora and 

 tibiae, bright ferruginous; the wings fusco-hyaline and iridescent. 



