82 MR. smith's descriptions of hymenopteeous insects 



piceous. The posterior margin of the prothorax curved ; the wings 

 hyaline, faintly yellow, with the nervures ferruginous ; the marginal 

 cell triangular, the inferior angle at the apex of the second submarginal 

 cell ; the metathorax finely rugose and covered with short cinereous 

 pubescence. Abdomen with a short petiole at its base, slightly 

 shining ; the apical segment smooth and shining in the middle. 

 Hub. Makassar. 



9. Agenia NASUTA. A.atva; alis hyalinis bifasciatis. 



Female. Length 6| lines. Black : covered with a thin cinereous pile ; 

 the face with silvery-grey pubescence ; the anterior margin of the 

 clypeus produced in the middle, forming a short blunt rufo-piceous 

 beak or nose. The posterior margin of the prothorax arched; the 

 wings hyahne ; the anterior pair with a broad fuscous band at the apex 

 of the stigma as wide as the second and third submarginal cells, an 

 angulated band at the apex of the exteruo-medial cells ; tips of the 

 wings milky-white ; the metathorax with a slight transverse rugose 

 striation. Abdomen : the basal segment with a short petiole ; the 

 apical segment very smooth and shining. 



Hab. Makassar. 



10. Agenia jucunda. A. atra; capite thoraceque pube aurea vestitis; 

 antennis, tibiis, tarsisque anticis et intermediis ferrugineis ; alis hyalinis 

 apice fuscis. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Black; the face and clypeus covered with 

 silvery pubescence, that on the head above the insertion of the antennae 

 of a pale golden colour; the antennae and palpi pale ferruginous. 

 Thorax : clothed above vsdth a fine pale golden pubescence ; on the 

 metathorax it becomes silvery, as it is also on the sides and beneath ; 

 the posterior margin of the prothorax, the anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae, tarsi and apex of the femora, ferruginous ; the apex of the 

 posterior tibiae and femora, and the tarsi beneath, ferruginous ; wings 

 flavo-hyaline, with a large dark fuscous spot at the apex of the anterior 

 pair. Abdomen subpetiolate, covered with a fine thin changeable silvery 

 downy pile ; the apex rufo-testaceous. 



Hab. Makassar. 



Gen. Mtgnimia, Smith. 



L Mygnimia fervida. M. capite thoraceque nigris; abdomine pedi- 

 busque ferrugineis ; alis obscure fuscis. 



Female. Length 9 lines. The head, thorax, and coxae black ; the an- 

 tennae, labrum, mandibles, and palpi ferruginous ; the clypeus emar- 

 ginate. The prothorax transverse, its anterior lateral angles prominent ; 

 the metathorax transversely striated ; wings dark fuscous or brown- 

 black, with a bright violet iridescence, a semi-transparent lunate 

 macula in the second discoidal cell at its base ; the tibiae and tarsi with 



