from the Oriental Zooluc/lcal Region. 8.'* 



the cjc-inci.sion entirely, a line down the centre of the front 

 (narrowed on the upper half, dilated below the middle, and 

 the apex still more widely triangularly dilated), the outer 

 orlnts almost entirely, a triangular mark between the ocelli 

 and the eyes, a large pyriform mark on the sides of the pro- 

 notum, the two united by a narrow line, two longish lines 

 down the centre of the mesonotura, a mark on the basal half 

 of the scutellum (roundly incised in the middle), a large 

 mark on postsQutellum (its base transverse, the apex obliquely 

 narrowed), a large curved triangular mark covering the sides 

 of the metanotum, the narrowed part below, two large marks 

 on the mcsopleurce at the base (the upper broader and shorter 

 than the lower, the two divided by the suture), teguUe (except 

 for a fuscous spot), the Hrst abdominal segment at the top of 

 a[)ical slope, its apex and the apices of the following seven 

 segments, the lines dilated laterally and that on the seventh 

 also in the middle, a mark in the centre of the eighth (nar- 

 rowed towards the apex), the sides of the second ventral 

 broadly, its apex more narrowly (the black central mark 

 formed thereby is obliquely narrowed at the apex), and the 

 apices of the other segments, yellow. Legs yellow, the coxfB, 

 trochanters, and femora black behind. "V^^ngs hyaline, tiie 

 anterior suffused witli fuscous; the stigma fuscous, the nervures 

 black. S ' 



Length 10 mm, 



Kuching, Borneo; June {John Hewitt). 



Clypeus as broad as long, the apical half roundly narrowed, 

 the apex transverse. U})per part of head and the thorax, 

 except the apex of the mesopleurge and the base of meta- 

 pleurje (which are bare, smooth, and shining), closely, rather 

 strongly punctured. Underside of antenna! scape yellow, of 

 the fiagellum brown, as is also the hook, wiiich is as long as 

 the joint. Base of thorax not quite transverse, the sides of 

 metanotum margined ; the postscutellum is obliquely nar- 

 rowed. The jjubescence all over is short, dense, and pale. 



Jn the Journ. Linn. Soc. 1857, p. 112, Mr. F. >Smith 

 described an OJynerus mu/tipictus horn Borneo; in the same 

 journal, 1859, j). 1(15, he described another 0. multiptctus 

 Irom Aru. In his ' Catalogue of Malay Hymenoptera ' the 

 Am multipictus is duly noted, but not the earlier one. 

 Saussure (Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 200) redescribes wliat he 

 regarded as the Borneo 7mihi/>ictus, and renamed it guttii- 

 latds — " parce que I'auteur I'a aussi donne a une aiitiees|iece 

 (pii pourra le conserver." It is, however, thi^ Ani mii/tij > ictus 

 of 1859 that ought to have been renamed. Bingham (' Fauna 

 of Biil. India,' Hymen, i. p. '6{iS) describes and tigures the 



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