from the Oriental Zoological Region. 83 



tlie eye-incision entirely, a line down the centre of tlie front 

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

 the apex still more widely triangularly dilated), the outer 

 orbits 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 mesonotum, a mark on the basal half 

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

 mark on postscuteilum (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 mesopleurte at the base (the upper broader and shorter 

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

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

 apical 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 coxge, 

 trochanters, and femora black behind. Wings hyaline, the 

 anterior suffused with 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. Upper part of head and the thorax, 

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

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

 strongly punctured. Underside of antennal scape yellow, of 

 the flagellum brown, as is also the hook, which is as long as 

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

 metanotum margined ; the postscuteilum is obliquely nar- 

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



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

 described an Odynerus muUipictas from Borneo; in the same 

 journal, 1859, p. 165, he described another 0. multipictus 

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

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

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

 regarded as the Borneo multipictus, and renamed it guttu- 

 latus — " parce que I'auteur I'a aussi donnd a une autre espece 

 qui pourra le conserver." It is, however, the Aru multipictus 

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

 of Brit. India.' Hvmen. i. p. 368) describes and figures the 



