MR. smith's catalogue OF HYMENOPTEBA. 93 



segment with ferruginous pubescence ; beneath naked, finely punctured 

 and shining, with the apical margins of the segments pale testaceous. 

 Hab. Makassar. 



Gen. Apis, Linn. 



1. Apis NiGRO-ciNCTA. J.capitethoraceque nigris; abdomine pallide 

 ferrugineo, segmentis fasciis nigris ; scutello pedibusque pallidis. 



Worker. Length 5 lines. Head and thorax black ; the scape of the an- 

 tenna;, the clypeus, labrum, and mandibles pale ferruginous. Thorax : 

 the scutellum and legs pale ferruginous, with the tibiae and tarsi fuscous, 

 the intermediate and posterior tibiae pale in the middle ; wings hyaUne, 

 the nervures fen-uginous. Abdomen pale ferruginous, with the apical 

 margins of the segments dark fuscous ; beneath entirely pale. 



Hab. Makassar. 



This species most closely resembles the A. socialis of Latreille, but it is 

 quite distinct, as I have ascertained by a comparison with and an ex- 

 amination of the typical specimen in Mr. Westwood's possession. 



Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects collected by Mr. A.. E-. 

 Wallace in the Islands of Bachiao, Kaisaa, Amboyua, Gilolo, 

 and at Dory in New Guinea. By Teederick Smith, Esq., 

 Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum. 

 Communicated by W. W. Saunders, Esq., V.P.L.S. 

 [Read May 3, I860.] 



Of the various collections of Hi/menoptera which Mr. "Wallace 

 has formed in the Indian Archipelago, none has exceeded that 

 whose contents are described in the present paper, in the beauty 

 and variety of the species, as well as in the interest attached to 

 their geographical distribution. Amongst the Formicidcs many 

 new and remarkable forms are both described and figured. I 

 would particularly caU attention to the two forms of the worJcer 

 of Fheidole notahilis. Though convinced that nothing is created 

 in vain, and that every modification of form has its design, adapt- 

 ing it to the fulfilment of conditions necessary in the economy of 

 the particular species, I feel quite unable even to conjecture the 

 purpose of the enormously enlarged head of the worJcer major of 

 that species. 



Another very interesting Ant is a new species of Erichson's 

 genus Amhlyojyone ; the previously described species are either from 

 Tasmania or Australia ; that here described is from Bachian. 



Two remarkable species are added to the Oryptocendce, and a 

 new genus described, which has partly the characters of Crypfocerus, 

 and partly those of Ponera. 



