or IITMENOPTERA FKOM SUMATBA, ETC. 65 



a dark fuscous cloud at their apex. The abdomen finely punctured 

 and shining. 

 Hab. New Guinea. 



10. PiMPLA INTERCEPTOR. P. lutea ; autennis strigisque tribus me- 

 sothoracis nigris ; alis hyalinis, apice fuscis. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Luteous ; the face, and extreme base of the 

 abdomen pale yellow ; a triangular spot behind the vertex, a smaller 

 spot enclosing the antennae uniting with the former, the longitudinal 

 stripes on the mesothorax, the central one running to the scutellum, 

 and the ovipositor black ; the scape yellow in front ; the legs stout ; 

 the wings hyaline, the nervures black, the apex of the anterior wings 

 fuscous; the thorax smooth and shining above. Abdomen reddish 

 yellow towards the apex, punctured, and slightly shining. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



Gen. Ehtssa, Grav. 



1. Rhyssa INSTIGATOR, ij. capite flavo, vcrtice nigro ; thorace nigro, 

 scabriusculo et flavo maculate ; alis hyahnis, anticis fascia fusca ante 

 apicem ornatis; abdomine nigro, segmentis primo et secundo dorso 

 flavo maculatis, tertio, quarto et quinto maculis duabus flavis ; tibiis 

 tarsisque ferrugineis. 



Female. Length 9 lines, of the ovipositor 13 lines. Head yellow, with the 

 vertex, mandibles, and a minute spot on the front beneath the insertion 

 of the antennae black ; antennae wanting. Thorax black, rugose, with 

 a transverse striation above ; the collar, two stripes on the mesothorax, 

 the scutellum and a spot on the middle of the metathorax, a larger 

 spot on each side, an irregular spot beneath the wings, and a line on 

 the sides of the coxae yellow; the geniculations of the coxae, tror- 

 chanters, and femora, and the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; the claw- 

 joint of the tarsi dark fuscous ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the 

 anterior pair with a dark fuscous fascia crossing at the second sub- 

 marginal cell. Abdomen black ; a yellow spot in the middle of the 

 first and second segments, the following segments with a yellow ovate 

 spot on each side, each in succession becoming more oblong, the apical 

 ones forming an oblong curved stripe ; the margins of the segments 

 beneath broadly yellow. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



Gren. Gltpta, Grav. 



1. Glypta fracticornis. Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc, vii. p. 10. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



Gren. Ophion, Fair. 



I. Ophion stimulator. 0. rufescenti-flavus, antennis abdomineque 

 apice nigris; alis hyalinis, iridescentibus. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Bright reddish yellow ; the antennae black, 

 the ocelli placed in a black patch on the vertex. The metathorax 

 rugose, with a series of divergent carinae running from the centre and 



