380 A NATURALIST'S WANBEBINQS 



Hyp^NiDa). 



20. PiNACIA MOLYBDiENALIS, Hiib. 



Pinacia molybdceualis, Hiibner. Samml. exot. Schmetij Zutr. p. 13, 

 H. 218, figs. 435, 436. 

 Larat. 

 Previously known from Java and Borneo. 



AsopiiDai. 



21. Hymenia faecialis, Cram. 



Fhalana- Pyralis fascialis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 398. (1782). 

 Larat. 

 A fragment of this wide-ranging species was obtained. 



BOTIDID^. 



22. BoTYS, sp. 



A broken example of a species allied to B. gastralis, wliich it resembles 

 ill size and coloration ; the pattern, however, agrees better with B. 

 ronnalis. 



Ritabel, Larat. 



The specimen is not suflSciently perfect to name; it is chiefly interest- 

 ing for its resemblance to New-World types. 



The only other Lepidopteron is unrecognisable, as previously men- 

 lioned; the veining of the wings reminds one of fome Micro-Lepi- 

 dopteron. 



VIL— Oft the Collectii.n o/'HYMENOPTEKAflnd DiPTEEA /rom the Timor-laut 

 Islands, formed ly Mu. H. 0. Fokbes. By W. F. Kieby, Assistant in 

 the Zoological Department, British Museum. 



(i'rom the Proc. Zool. Soc. London, May, 1883, p. 343 et seqq.) 



Ihe fmall collection before me, consisting of only five species of 

 Ilymenoptera (all new) and three of Diptcra, was formed in two of the 

 ^maller islands of the Timor-laut group, viz. Larat and Maru. I will now 

 proceed to describe the Hymenoptera and to notice the Diptera, merely 

 remarking that they exhibit strong afBiiities to those of the surrounding 

 groups of islands, as would naturally be anticipated beforehand. The 

 specimens are numbered; and I have noted these numbers throughout. 



HYMENOPTEEA ACULEATA. 

 AriD.a:. 



Chocisa c^euleifeons, Kirby., loc. cit. 



Long. Corp. 5 lin. 



Female. Black, face and orbits (very broadly above) blue ; prothorax 

 with a short stripe behind on eacUi side above, and a very large spot on 

 Ihe sides ; mesothorax with seven blue spots — two email ones on the front 

 border, adjoining those on the prothorax, a longitudinal one between, 

 then two slightly oval ones near the middle, and a large irregular spot 

 behind on each side, projecting a branch forward witbin the very large 

 black tegute ; scuttellum black, strongly excavated in the middle : 

 abdomen with the first segment blue, a narrow longitudinal line, the 

 greater part of the hind border, and a long transverse spot contiguous to 



