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the abdomen yellow broadly banded with black; the wings hya- 
line, with a narrow cloud below the stigma, and the apex is 
narrowly smoky. 9°. 
Length 15 mm.; ovipositor 12 mm. 
Hab. Kuching. 
Head black, the face and clypeus and the malar space yel- 
low, the face with a black mark in the centre; the inner orbits 
are yellow to near the upper ocelli. Front and vertex smooth 
and shining; the front with a distinct keel down the middle, 
extending from the ocelli to the base of the antenne. Mandibles 
black, the base with large elongate punctures. Palpi yellow. 
Thorax smooth; the centre of the propleure striated; the 
lower part of the meso- obscurely and the meta- more distinct- 
_ly punctured. Parapsidal furrows and the depression at the 
apex of the middle lobe transversely striated. The part be- 
hind the basal aree on the median segment is irregularly 
longitudinally striated and there are some irregular transverse 
keels down the sides; the centre at the apex is depressed; the 
depression becomes gradually wider to beyond the middle, it 
then becoming gradually obliquely narrowed to the apex, this 
part being bounded by distinct keels. Legs thickly covered 
with white pubescence. The basal two-thirds of the Ist and 
the basal halves of the 2nd to 5th abdominal segments black. 
CRYPTINA. 
MESOSTENINI. 
Skeatia flavipes, sp. nov. 
Black; the middle of the flagellum of the antenne broadly 
white; a large mark of equal width throughout on the centre of 
the face, a small mark on the vertex touching the eyes, the 
tegule, scutellum, post-scutellum, a minute mark on the tuber- 
cles, a triangular mark under the hinder wings, the sides of the 
metanotum, a narrower line round the top and the spines, lemon- 
yellow. Legs lemon-yellow ; the hinder trochanters, apical third 
of hinder femora, and the apical fourth of the hinder tibie 
black. The abdominal segments banded with yellow at the apex ; 
the last segment is entirely yellow. Wings hyaline, the nervures 
and stigma are black. 9. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
