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strongly, sharply transversely striated; the wings dark smoky- 
fuscous ; the base to the transverse basal nervure and above to 
the base of the stigma bright yellow: the apical nervures fus- 
cous-black ; the basal bright yellow, @. 
Length 10 mm. 
Hab. Kuching. 
Head shining, sparsely punctured; the middle of the face 
raised and more closely and distinctly punctured; the face, 
front, vertex and occiput covered, but not thickly, with longish 
pale fuscous and white hairs. Apex of the mandibles broadly, 
deep black. Thorax Smooth and are shining; the pro-and 
meso-sparsely, the meta thorax thickly covered with long pale 
hair. Centre of metanotum smooth; the sides somewhat sha- 
greened. Abdomen shining; the back and apical serments cov- 
ered with long pale fuscous hairs; the penultimate segments 
punctured ; the last much more strong ly and deeply punctured, 
Femora sparsely, the tibie and tarsi thickly covered with pale 
hairs; the claws blackish. 
This species is probably identical with “Cynips’ insignis. 
Smith, described, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1857, p. 117, from Sarawak. 
Itis inno sense a Cynips in the modern meaning, and belongs to 
the parasitic branch of the family. Toprevent the making of 
a synonym I have used Smith’s name in case an examination of 
Smith’s type would prove it to be identical with the species I 
have described. 
CHALCIDIDA. 
Leucospis erythrogastra, sp. nov. 
Black, the ventral surface and apex of abdomen rufous 
mixed with yellow; a large broad mark on the inner orbits, 
rounded at the top and bottom and roundly curved inwardly on 
the inner side, a larze somewhat heartshaped mark-narrow above 
incised below—below the antennae,a smaller, somewhat similar 
mark below it, a line, dilated at ‘pe sides, on the base of the 
pronotum, a slight! y broader one, not reaching to the edzes, on 
its apex, 2 apiigae irregularly oval marks on the centre of the 
mesonotum, a longish, broad line on its sides, slightly incised on 
the innerside, the sides of the scutellum from near the base and 
R, A. Soe,, No. 39, 1903. 
