38 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



coxae, which has some large punctures ; the rest coarsely 

 punctured, at the apex running into reticulations. Legs 

 ferruginous, the coxae and the four hinder trochanters 

 black; the hinder tarsi fuscous. Wings uniformly viola- 

 ceous; the nervures and stigma black; at the top the 

 second cubital cellule is only very slightly longer than the 

 space bounded by the first recurrent and first transverse 

 cubital nervures. Petiole slightly longer than the head 

 and thorax united; the basal third almost impunctate; 

 the rest strongly punctured; the part behind the tubercles 

 distinctly narrowed; the tubercles indistinct; the second 

 segment is closely and strongly punctured; the other 

 smooth and shining; shortly beyond the middle of the 

 petiole is an oval mark on either side; the apex is banded 

 with yellow; in front of the middle and second segment 

 is, on either side, an irregularly triangular mark; its apex 

 is belted all round with yellow. 



EUMENES ERYTHROPODA, sp. nov. 



Niger, basi clypei^ pronoto, scutellis maculis duobus, 

 metanoto pedibusque rufis ; alts violaceis. ?. 



Long. 15 mm. 



Hab. Malacca. 



Head coarsely punctured, the apex of the clypeus and 

 the labrum smooth ; the front and vertex thickly covered 

 with long, fuscous hair ; the clypeus and labrum with 

 white depressed pubescence ; black ; the wedge-shaped 

 space between the antennae, almost the basal half of the 

 clypeus, its apex and the labrum, rufous ; the basal mark 

 on the clypeus with two triangular expansions in its 

 apex ; the apex of the clypeus with a shallow, waved 

 incision, the sides of which do not form teeth ; the apex 

 of the labrum rounded. The base of the mandibles 

 broadly black ; the rest rufous, slightly fringed with long, 

 white hair; the palpi obscure testaceous. Antennae black; 



