Hymenopterous genus Scleroderma. 135 
distinctly punctured, the base of the seements depressed, 
their margins constricted. Length 44 lines. 
Hab. Canada. (Coll. F’. Smith, olim). 
Methoca insularis. 
Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc., vol. v., p. 77. 
M. nigra; antennis, mandibulis, pedibusque ferru- 
eineis ; abdomine rufo-piceo cingulato. 
2. Length 8 lines. Black, smooth, and shining ; 
the antenne, anterior margim of the clypeus, the 
mandibles and palpi ferruginous; a deeply impressed 
line runs from the base of the clypeus up to the anterior 
ocellus. Thorax: a deep constriction between the pro-, 
meso-, and metathorax, the apex of the latter rufo- 
piceous. Abdomen with a short petiole, the apical 
margin of the first and second segments and the apical 
segment entirely rufo-piceous. 
Hab. Makassar (Wallace). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonie. 
The abdomen of this species is more oval and shorter 
than that of M. thoracica; the body is black, with the 
tip of abdomen luteous ; legs and antenne castaneous, 
the latter thicker in proportion than in M. thoracica. 
Methoca thoracica. 
Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc., vol. vi., p. 50. 
‘“‘M.rufo-ferrugineus, capite abdominisque fasciis tribus 
nigris.” 
@. Length 4 lines. Rufo-ferruginous; the head 
black, the abdomen with three black fasciz, very smooth 
and shining; the mandibles, clypeus, and antenne 
ferruginous. (Plate L., fig. 5, female.) 
Hab. Celebes (Tondano), (Wallace). In Mus. Hopeiano 
Oxoniz (olim W. W. Saunders). 
“This very beautiful insect may probably be a very 
large highly-coloured form of M. insularis, described in a 
previous paper; but not having any intermediate in 
size, I have thought it advisable to describe it as a 
distinct species.” 
The type of this insect is a female, and is now 
contained in the Hopeian Museum, It resembles M, 
