MALAY PARASITIC HYMEXOPTERA. 35 



rufous yellow ; femora red, the aiiicul third black above, the 

 tibia' and tarsi black, the former broadly rufous at the middle. 

 Wings hyaline, the nervures and costa black. Antennas broadly 

 ringed Avith white, fuscous below towards the apex ç. 



Length 12 mm. 



Java, Ardjuno. (»Scheepmaker leg.). 



Front and vertex smooth and shining, the face and vertex 

 strongly, but not closely punctured; mesonotum and scutellum 

 distinctly, but not closely punctured ; the metanotum more 

 strongly punctured, the lateral basal areie not so strongly or 

 closely us the apical ; the posterior median impunctate, the 

 sides obscurely striated ; the petiolar area smooth and shining. 

 Areola large, longer than wide, the base almost transverse, 

 the apex curving inwardly. Propleurœ smooth, the lower- 

 part obscurely striated at the apex. Meso- and metapleurœ 

 closely, distinctly punctured. Abdomen short, hardly equal to 

 the head and thorax united ; post-petiole punctured somewhat 

 strongly, the base in the middle finely striated, (lastrocoeli 

 deep, smooth ; these is a narrow striated furrow on the base 

 of the 3''^ segment. Legs pilose ; the hind tarsi longer than 

 usual, the apices of the joints spinose. Areolet narrow in 

 front, the nervures almost touching there ; recurrent nervure 

 angled near the middle, emitting a stump of a nervure on 

 the outerside. Basal joints of flagellum fully 3 times longer 

 than thick. Scutellum not flat, slightly, but clearly raised, 

 clearly longer than wide, the sides on the basal half keeled. 

 Temples broad, narrowed, rounded. 



C r y p t i n ae. 



MesostenÌ7iì. 



Skeatia jaranicd sp. nov. 



Black; the face, clypeus, the orbits except near the iop or, 

 the outerside, mandibles to near the apex, palpi, a broad band 



