or MYSOL, CEBAM, WAIGIOU, BOURTJ, AND TIMOR. 25 



Female. Length 4 lines. Head, antennae, legs, and abdomen black, 

 finely shagreened and subopake ; thinlj- sprinkled with black hairs ; 

 the legs sprinkled with glittering white hairs. The thorax red, rugose, 

 and clothed with decumbent red hair ; its anterior and posterior mar- 

 gins transverse ; the sides rounded, but slightly narrowed behind. The 

 apical margin of the second segment of the abdomen with a narrow 

 band of white pubescence, produced and widened in the middle of the 

 band ; the fifth segment fringed with glittering pale pubescence ; the 

 sixth longitudinally striated, with the base ferruginous. 



Hab. Ceram. 



8. MuTiLLA FAUSTA. M. capitc thoraceque nigro-cseruleis ; abdo- 

 mine nigro, fascia argenteo-pubescente decorato. 



Female. Length 2f lines. Head and thorax blue-black, and closely 

 punctured ; the palpi elongate and pale rufo-testaceous ; the man- 

 dibles, apex of the scape, the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; the tibiae 

 dusky outside ; the head wider than the thorax, and transverse-qua- 

 drate above. The basal segment of the abdomen yellowish above ; 

 the second segment with its apical margin pale testaceous and clothed 

 with silvery-white hair, the band produced in the middle into a bilobed 

 shaj^e ; the apical segment rufo-testaceous, smooth and shining ; the 

 insect thinly sprinkled with erect pale pubescence. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Gen, TiPHiA, Fabr. 



I. TiPHiA INTRUDENS. T. nitida, atra, punctata, sparse griseo-pu- 

 bescens; femoribus quatuor posticis compressis; linea intermedia 

 metathoracis ad lineam transversam excurrente. 



Female. Length 3|-5 lines. Black and shining ; the head with strong 

 but rather distant punctures ; the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax : 

 the pro- and mesothorax strongly punctured, the posterior margin of 

 the former smooth and shining ; the metathorax smooth, the superior 

 surface with three elevated longitudinal lines, all extending to the 

 verge of the truncation, — the lines nearly parallel, veiy slightly conver- 

 ging towards the apex ; the anterior wings fusco-hyaline ; the tegulae 

 smooth and shining, with their posterior margins rufo-piceous ; the 

 tips of the femoi-a rufo-piceous. Abdomen delicately punctured ; the 

 apical segment rugose, with the tip ferruginous ; the legs, the sides 

 and apex of the abdomen with glittering pale hairs. 



The male differs in having the marginal cell closed and the stigma large 

 and black. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Pam. THYNNID^, Urichs. 



Gen. Thynnus, Fabr. 



1. Thynnus lugubris. T. niger, delicatule punctulatus; alis fusco- 

 nigris. 



