HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 147 
Length 13 mm.; terebra 3 mm. 
Aab. Kuching, April 25th. 
Face rugose, on the lower side obscurely longitudinally 
striated. Front with a distinct keel down the middle; the sides 
with irregularly twisted longitudinal or oblique keels. The 
ocelli are bordered laterally by a furrow. Mesonotum acicu- 
lated, closely and finely transversely striated alone the furrows, 
which bear some transverse strive. Scutellar depression with a 
stout, longitudinal keel inthe centre. Scutellums smooth. Be- 
hind the postscutellum is a curved keel, with a more distinct longi- 
tudinal one running down from its centre. The basal area on 
the mesonotum is slightly longer than its width at tle base; it 
becomes narrowed towards the apex which is transverse. The 
base behind the keel is strongly aciculated; the rest of the seg- 
ment is longitudinally reticulated; the apical slope transversely 
so; the spines are long and project obliquely outwardly. Pro- 
pleurze stoutly in the middle and at the apex longitudinally. 
striated. Mesopleure stoutly obliquely reticulated, except at 
the apex above; the furrow is crenulated. Metapleure closely 
and rather strongly obliquely striated ; the striz are more or less 
curved. Petiole smooth and shining; the 2nd and 3rd segments 
are aciculated ; the others smooth. The 4 front tarsi are black. 
Skeatia varipes, Sp. nov. 
Black ; the inner orbits, the outer broadly from near the top, 
the face and clypeus, a line on the pronotum, a mark in the 
centre of the mesonotum, the scutellar keels, the scutellums, the 
sides of the metanotum, a curved line on its top uniting the later- 
al lines, the spines, the tubercles, the lower part of the 
mesopleure broadly—the mark with a curved incision in the 
middle above—the mesosternum, a mark under the hind wings 
and a large oblique mark in the centre of the metapleure, yel- 
low. The 4 front legs pale yellow, their femora lined above 
with black, as are also the middle tibie behind; the hinder cox 
yellow, largely marked with black on the outer side ; the hinder 
femora rufous, black from shortly beyond the middle, the tibie; 
and tarsi yellow, with the apical third of the tibie, black. 
Wings hyaline. the stigma and nervures fuscous black. 9. 
R. A. Soe., No. 39,,1902. 
