380 A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



Hypzexid^. 



20, PlNACIA MOLlBDiEyALIS, Hub. 



Pinacia molyhdmialis, liubner. SaiiimL exot. Sclmiett., Zutr. p. 13, 



li, 218, figs. 135, 436. 

 Larat. 

 Previously known from Java and Borneo. 



AsOPIIDiE. 



2L Hymenia fa£CIalis, Cram. 



Fhalcena-Pyralis fasckdis, Cramer, Vi\\). Exot. iv. pi, 398. (1782). 

 Larat, 

 A fragment of this wide-ranging species vrag obtained- 



22. BoTYSj sp. 



BOTIDID^. 



A broken example of a species allied to B. gastralis, "wliich it resembles 

 iu size and coloration ; the pattern, however, agrees better with jB. 



roHinalis, 



Kitabcl, Larat, 



The specimen is not sufficiently perfect fo name; it is chiefly inlercst- 

 ing for its re>emblance to New-World types. 



The only other Lepidopteren is unrecognisable, as previously men- 

 tioned; the veining of tlie winga reminds one of fome Micro-Lepi- 

 dopteron. 



VIL — On the Colhctum o/HYME:?fOPTERAtf?2^ Dipteea /rom the Timor-Iatit 

 Hands, formed hy Mk, H. 0. Fokbes. By W. F. Kiuby, Assistant in 

 the Zoological Department, BiitL-h Mufeum. 



(From the Proc. Zool. Soc. London, May, 1883, p. 343 et seqq.) 



Ihe Fmall collection before me, consisting of only five species of 

 Ifymenoptera (all new) and three of Diptera, was formed in two of the 

 smaller islands of the Timor-laut group, viz. Larat and Marti. I will now 

 proceed to describe the Hymcnoptera and to notice the DJi)tera, merely 

 remarking that they exhibit strong affinities to those of the surrounding 

 groups of islands, as would naturally be anticipated beforehand. The 

 t-pecimens are numbered ; and I have noted thc^e numbers throughout. 



HYME^'OPTEEA ACULEATA. 



AriD^. 



Crocisa c^ruleifhoks, Kirby,, loc. cit 



Long, Corp. 5 lin. 



Female, Black, face and orbits (very broadly above) blue; prothorax 

 with a short stripe behind on each side above, and a very largo spot on 

 the sides ; mesothorax with seven blue spots— two ?mall ones on the front 

 border, adjoining those on the prothorax, a longitudinal one between, 

 then two slightly oval ones near the middle, and a large irregular spot 

 behind on each side, projecting a branch forward within the very largo 

 black tegula; ; scuttellum black, strongly excavated in the middle: 

 abdomen with the first segment blue, a narrow longitudinal line, the 

 greater part of the hind border, and a long transverse spot contiguous to 



