COLLECTED AT CELEBES. 13 



ferrugineis, alis fulvo-hyalinis ; abdominis segmento apicali flavo uni- 

 maculato. 



Female. Length 9^ lines. Black ; the face above the clypeus, as high 

 as the anterior ocellus, reddish-yellow ; the extreme edge of the cly- 

 peus, the labrum and base of the mandibles ferruginous ; the antennae 

 reddish-yellow. Thorax : fulvo-hyaline, with a dark fuscous border 

 at the apex; the knees, tibiae and tarsi reddish-yellow j the two 

 latter spinose. Abdomen : gradually tapering to an acute point at 

 the apex, the sixth segment with an elongate red spot. 



Hub. Celebes. 



Subgenus Agenia. 



1. Agenia blanda, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 260. 



2. Agenia. BiMACULATA. J.nigra, cinereo-pilosa, clypeoplagisduabus 

 flavis ; antennarum articulis apicalibus, tibiis tarsisque anticis et inter- 

 mediis femoribusque posticis ferrugineis; alis subhyalinis, nervuris 

 nigris. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Black, and covered with ashy pile ; a large 

 macula on each side of the clypeus, the mandibles and palpi yellow ; 

 the base and apex of the mandibles rufo-piceous ; the flagellum pale 

 ferruginous, more or less fuscous above towards the base. Thorax : 

 the posterior margin of the prothorax arched ; the anterior and inter- 

 mediate tibiae and tarsi and the femora at their apex beneath, also 

 the posterior femora, pale ferruginous; the wings subhyaline, the 

 nervures dark fuscous. Abdomen : the apical margins of the segments 

 obscurely and narrowly rufo-piceous, the apex ferruginous. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Gen. Maceomebis, St. Farg 



1. Macromeris splendida, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 463. 1. 3 . 

 Hab. India, China, Malacca, Borneo, Java, Celebes. 



G-en. Mtgnimta, Smith. 



1 . Mygnimia iridipennis. Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 98. 

 Hab. Celebes, Borneo. 



This insect, a female, is 5 lines larger than M. iridipennis ; but I can 

 point out no other distinction beyond a shght difference in the colour 

 of the wings : the specimen from Boraeo has a metallic bluish-green 

 iridescence, the Celebes insect has a violet iridescence; notwithstand- 

 ing which I am inclined to regard them as one species. 



2. Mygnimia fumipennis. M. aurantiaco-rubra, alis obscure fuscis. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Orange-red ; the anterior margin of the cly- 

 peus entire ; the labrum produced, its anterior margin widely emar- 

 ginate ; eyes large, black and ovate. Thorax : the posterior margin 



