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yellow. Legs pale yellow, the inner side of the four hinder 

 coxae, the lower side of the posterior, base of four hinder 

 trochanters, tlie four hinder femora broadly above, the hinder 

 two also in the middle below, base of tibiaj and the tarsi, black. 

 Wings hyaline, a latge fuscous-violaceous cloul at the apex, 

 commencing shortly beyond the transverse cid)ital nervure 

 and extending to the end of the radial cellule. ? . 



Length 15, ovipositor 28 mm. 



Kuching; September {John Hewitt). 



Face smooth, finely obscurely striated above ; the striae on 

 apical central part of mesonotum much finer and closer than 

 on the rest. Basal half of scuteHum closely punctured, as 

 are also (but more finely) the middle segments of the 

 abdomen. 



In the male the meso- and metapleurae are yellow, without 

 black, as is also tlie breast, the black on first abdominal 

 segment is transverse at the apex, the bands are broader, and 

 the apical segments are reddish brown ; the black on the 

 legs is less extended and (he apical cloud in the fore wings 

 is small, not extending to the cubitus. 



This species comes near to E. {Macrogaster) Jiavopictus, 

 Sm., described from Singapore by JSmith and from Borneo 

 by Tosquinet (Mem. de la Soc. ent. de Belg. 1903, p. 258). 

 It is a much larger species (25 mm. according to Tosquinet, 

 15 lines according to Smith). Macrogaster^ BruUe, does not 

 belong to the Pimpliuffi; Ctenotonia, Cam., is probably the 

 same. It is purely African, so far as 1 know. 



Epirhyssa cruciala, sp. n. 



Black ; the apex of the second and the following abdo- 

 mijial segments reddish brown ; the face, clypeus, inner orbits 

 to near the end of the ocelli, the outer (except lor a broad 

 stripe in the centre of upper third), a large mark (dilated 

 broadly at the apex below) on propleuraj, two small oval 

 spots on the centre of mesonotum at the base, two larger ones 

 (roundly narrowed on the inner side) at the end of the basal 

 lobe, a square mark on the sides of the scutellum at the base, 

 a longer narrower line on the sides of the apex (leaving a 

 black cruciform mark in the centre), a broad curved band on 

 the metanotum near the apex uniting with the yeHow on 

 metapleurse which occupies almost the whole surface, the 

 tubercles, the mesopleura3 (except round the edges and a large 

 oblique mark, narrowed above, near the centre below), a large 

 triangular mark on the sides of mesosternum, a longish line 

 (dilated at the apex) in the centre of apical three fourths of 



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