OF CERAM, CELEBES, TERNATH, AND GILOLO. 63° 
Gen. Mzsostents, Brullé. 
1, MEsosTENUS DEcoRATUS, WM. niger, capite thoraceque maculis, 
abdominis fasciis flavo-albidis ; pedibus ferrugineis, tarsis posterioribus 
albis; alis hyalinis. 
Female. Length 5 lines. Black; the face, mandibles, and orbits of the 
eyes of a yellowish white; the antenne with seven or eight joints 
towards the apex white, the two apical ones black. Thorax: the 
posterior margin of the prothorax interrupted in the middle; the 
tegulz, scutellum, post-scutellum, a spot in the disk of the mesotho- 
rax, the sides and apex of the metathorax, yellowish white; the cox 
are of the same colour, with a black line outside the posterior pair ; 
the femora and tibiz pale ferruginous ; the posterior tarsi white, the 
two anterior pairs dusky. Abdomen: the posterior margin of all the 
segments white, the apical segment entirely so. 
Hab, Gilolo. 
Gen. Cryptus, Fubr. 
1. Cryptus sicarius, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. Supp. v. 138. 1. 
Hab. Gilolo; Dory; Bachian. 
2. CRYPTUS FERRUGINEUS. C. rufo-ferrugineus, capite thoraceque 
nigro-variegatis, abdominis cingulis duabus nigris; alis flavo-hyalinis. 
Female. Length 8 lines. Rufo-ferruginous; the vertex with a qua- 
drate spot, and the tips of the mandibles black. Thorax: the meso- 
thorax above, its sides, the pectus, and extreme base of the metatho- 
rax black; a yellow ovate spot in the middle of the mesothorax ; 
an indistinct fuscous spot on each side of the metathorax above ; 
the wings flavo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous ; the sub-marginal 
areolet large. Abdomen: the basal margin of the third segment, 
and a transverse black stripe on the seventh segment towards its 
base, black. 
Hab, Celebes (Tondano). 
Gen. Ornton, Fubr. 
1. Ophion unicolor, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. Supp. v. 141. 2. 
Hab. Gilolo; Bachian. 
Gen. Ruyssa, Grav. 
1. RuyssA NoBILITATOR. R. capite flavo, vertice nigro, thorace fer- 
rugineo scabriusculo, scutello flavo; abdomine nigro, segmentis pos- 
tice rufo-marginatis, primo et secundo, dorso, flavo-maculatis, tertio, 
quarto et quinto maculis duabus flavis ; alis hyalinis, basi flavescente, 
anticis vitta abbreviata fusca ante apicem ornatis. 
Female. Length of the body 9 lines, of the ovipositor 13 lines, Head 
yellow, with the vertex, mandibles and a small ovate spot on the cly- 
peus black; the antennz ferruginous, slightly fuscous above, with 
