62 MR. smith's descbiptions of hymenopteeous insects 



5. Cryptus PETIOLA.TUS. C nigcr ; antennis medio albis; thorace 

 pedibusque flavo variegatis ; alis hyalinis. 



Female. Length 4 3 lines. Black, smooth and shining; the anterior 

 margin of the clypeus, the mandibles, palpi, the anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs, the tegulse, scutellum, postscutellum, the apical margin 

 of the first and second segments, and the apical segment entirely, 

 yellow; the eighth to the twelfth joints of the antennae white; the 

 wings hyahue and u-idescent. The abdomen petiolated. 



Hab. Makassar. 



Gen. IscHNOCERUS, Grav. 



1. IscHNOCERUS MACULiPENNis. /. niger ; abdomine longitudinaUter 

 striato ; pedibus ferrugineis ; alis hyalinis, fasciis duabus fuscis. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black ; the head and thorax coarsely punc- 

 tured. The abdomen longitudinally irregularly striated. Anteimae 

 fusco-ferruginous ; the palpi testaceous. Wings hyaline ; the anterior 

 pair with a broad dark -brown fascia, which extends from the middle of 

 the stigma nearly to the apex of the marginal cell, a narrower fascia 

 crosses the wings at the apex of the extemo-medial cell ; the tips of 

 the posterior wings brown ; the legs ferruginous, with the coxae and 

 claw-joint of the tarsi black. 



Hab. Makassar. 



Gen. Metopius, Panz. 



1. Metopius crassipes. M. niger, rude punctatus et flavo variega- 

 tus ; pedibus i*ufo-testaceis ; alis hyalinis, apice fuscatis ; abdomine 

 flavo subinterrupte fasciato. 



Length 6 lines. Black, and coarsely punctm-ed ; the front yellow, with 

 a fuscous stain in the middle ; the antennae obscurely fulvous beneath ; 

 the scape yellow in front. Thorax : the wings hyaline, with a fuscous 

 cloud extending from the middle of the marginal cell to the apex of 

 the wings, the nerwu'es dark brown ; the legs rufo-testaceous, with 

 the anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi yellow; the posterior 

 coxae and base of the femora dark rufo-fuscous, also the claw-joint 

 of the tarsi fuscous ; the posterior legs incrassate. Abdomen yellow 

 beneath ; the three basal segments with narrow interrupted yellow 

 marginal fasciae. 



Hab. Makassar. 



* Gen. Gltpta, Grew. 



1. Glypta MACULIPENNIS. G. nigra ; capite nitido ; pedibus abdo- 

 mineque fasciis fen-ugineis ; alis hjalinis, maculis duabus fuscis. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Black; the head smooth and shining; the 

 clypeus, labrum, and a broad stripe behind the eyes luteo-testaceous ; 

 the antennae setaceous, of a yellowish-white, the ninth, tenth, and three 

 apical joints black ; the scape luteous in front and fusco-ferruginous 



