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in front, the inner pair are curved and the outer lanceolate. Hind lobe 

 with some black spots, of wliich four are larger than the oihers, and the 

 outer pair of these are half divided by a curved luieous line; an obliquely 

 ascending spine on each hind angle. Scutellum black, with a long nearly 

 erect blark spine. Pectus and connexivum with black spots. Femora 

 black, with a luieous band near the tip. Four anterior tibia? with a piceous 

 band ; furrow beneath short. Fore wings with numerous luieous veius. 

 Leugth of the body 8£ lines. 



a. Sarawak. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



61. Spiniger limbifer. 



Mas. Niger, longi-subfusiformis; caput an lice teslaceum, prothoracis 

 lobo anticn (pquilonginn ; antenna corpore breviores, articulo \o basi 

 luteo ; prothoracis lobus anticus lobo postico paullo brevior ; lobus 

 posticus luteo marginatus ; scutellum piceum, spina lutea erecla apice 

 nigra ar ma turn ; pectus luteo maculalum ; venter luleus ; pedes lulei, 

 femnribus apice piceis, tibiis piceis pilosis; corium striga obliqua 

 lutea; membrana fuscescente-cinerea, nigra venosa. 



Male. Black, elongate-subfusifonn. Head luteous in front, as long 

 as the fore lobe of the prothorax ; ante-ocular part as long as the post- 

 ocular. Rostrum luieous, black on each side towards the base and towards 

 the tip. Antennas rather shorter thau the body; Gist joint luteous towards 

 the base, rather more than half as long as the second; third very much 

 longer than the second. Fore lobe of )he prothorax a little shorter than the 

 hind lobe, which is luteous-bordered and has a minute black tooth on each 

 hind angle. Scutellum piceous, with a long luteous erect spine, which has 

 a black lip. Pectus with some luteous spots. Abdomen luteous benealb. 

 Leys luteous; femora piceous at the tips; tibiae hairy, mostly piceous; 

 femora beneath the fore tibia; very short. Fore wings with an oblique 

 luteous streak near the tip of the corium ; membrane brownish cinereous, 

 with black veins. Length of the budy b\ lines. 



a, Sarawak. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



b. ■■ ? From the collection of the Zoological Society. 



62. Spiniger oonficitus. 



Mas. Niger, gracilis, fere linearis, subtus Jlavus ; caput antice Jlavo 

 univtllatum, prothoracis lobo antico aquilongum ; antenna? gracil- 

 lima, corpori cequilonga?, articulo lo basi Jlavo; prothorax Jlavo 

 marginatus ; lobus anticus lobo postico paullo brevior ; scutelli spina 

 longa, erecla, flava, apice nigricans ; pectus Jlavo maculalum ; venter 

 aryenleo-Jlavus, aneo uniplagiatus el transverse slrigatus ; pedes pi cei, 

 femoribus quatuor anterioribus Jlavis basi apiceque piceis, femoribus 

 posticis basi Jlavis, tibiis quatuor anterioribus apice Jlavis ; tibiis 

 posticis Jlavo unifusciutis ; corium Jlavo bistrigatum ; membrana 

 cinerea nigra venosa. 



Male. Black, slender, nearly linear, yellow beneath. Head sub- 

 ellipiical, as long as the fore lobe of the prothorax, with a broad yellow 

 stripe in front of ihe eyes; ante- ocular part shorter thau the post-ocular. 



