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2. Tiphia stigma. T. nitida, atra, punctata ; alis subhyalinis, stigmatt 

 atro. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Black, punctured and shining; the clypeus 

 with shining white pubescence ; its anterior margin notched ; tips of 

 the mandibles ferruginous ; the flagellum fuscous beneath ; the meta- 

 thorax with three or four longitudinal elevated lines j wings subhya- 

 line, faintly smoky towards their apex ; the nervures pale testaceous ; 

 the stigma large and black ; the tibiae and tarsi with glittering white 

 pubescence ; the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen : the first seg- 

 ment much narrower than the second, and subglobose ; the following 

 segments thinly covered with sooty-black pubescence. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



3. Tiphia flavipennis. T. nitida, atra, sparse griseo-pubescens ; alis 

 flavescentibus. 



Female. Length 4-5 lines. Black, with scattered punctures : the man- 

 dibles ferruginous ; the palpi pale testaceous ; the flagellum obscurely 

 ferruginous beneath ; the scape fringed beneath with long glittering 

 pale hairs ; the superior surface of the metathorax, with three longi- 

 tudinal elevated lines, extending to the verge of the truncation ; the 

 outer margin of the tegulse piceous ; wings yellowish, their apical 

 margins slightly clouded; stigma small, and as well as the nervures, pale 

 testaceous ; the legs with a glittering white pubescence ; the calcaria 

 pale testaceous. Abdomen : smooth and shining, with scattered deli- 

 cate punctures ; the margins of the segments thinly fringed with long 

 pale hairs ; the apex rufo-piceous. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



Gen. Mtzine, Latr. 



1. Myzine tricolor. M. punctata, nitida; capite rubro; thorace nigro; 

 abdomine metallico-cyaneo. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Head red ; the thorax black ; the abdomen 

 metallic-blue ; the face closely and coarsely punctured ; the vertex 

 shining, the punctures finer and more distant; a deep punctured 

 fovea behind the ocelli ; the scape in front, and the mandibles ferru- 

 ginous, the latter black at their tips. Thorax coarsely punctured ; the 

 wings brown at their apex, becoming by degrees hyaline at their base, 

 the anterior pair with a bright violet iridescence ; the nervures black ; 

 the legs strongly spinose, with scattered white pubescence. The ab- 

 domen partaking of purple and violet tints in different lights. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



Fam. POMPILID.E. 

 Gen. Pompilds, Fabr. 



This extensive genus of insects, some species of which inhabit 



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