HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK., 149 
tum coarsely transversely straited, the iateral irregularly rugose- 
ly punctured ; the apex is rufous and bears four stout longitudinal 
keels. There are 4 longitudinal keels on the scutellar depres- 
sion; the scutellum is broadly black on the base. The lateral 
scutellar depressions and the depression on the base of the meta- 
notum are stoutly striated. The basal area on the metanotum 
is raised, smooth and open at the sides on the base; the rest of 
the metanotum is closely, strongly striated ; the strie are straight 
at the base, on the rest they are curved downwards in the 
middle. Mesopleurze on the lower side obliquely striated at the 
base ; the meta- stoutly obliquely striated and broadly depressed 
in the middle. The spines are short, broad and rounded at the 
apex. Abdomen smooth and shining. i 
*Melcha maculipennis, sp. nov. 
Black ; the median segment for the greater part red; the 
tegule, scutellum, post petiole, the apical third of the 2nd ak- 
dominal segment and the whole of the apical two whitish-yellow; 
the four front legs rufo-testaceous, the cox paler, the middle 
joints of their tarsi white, the base and apex black; hinder 
coxee rufous ; the trochanters, femora and base of tarsi blackish ; 
the apical and basal joints of tarsi black, the middle joints 
white. Wings hyaline; there is a brownish cloud between the 
base of the stigma and the areolet and extending nearly to the 
opposite side of the wing where it becomes fainter and narrower ; 
the apex is faintly clouded. Q. 
Length 9 mm.; ovipositor 2 mm. 
Hab. Kuching. 
Antenne long, black, the 7th to the 11th joints white except 
above, the scape dark rufous. Front above obscurely longitu- 
dinally, below obscurely transversely striated. Thorax shin- 
ing ; the mesopleur.2 alutaceous ; the furrows more or less cren- 
ulated. Scutellum smooth and shining. Base of median seg- 
ment smooth and shining; the part between the two keels ru- 
gose, the apical slope reticulated, the upper part more distinctly 
than the lower. Abdomen shining ; the 2nd and 3rd segments 
are closely punctured; the gastroceli smooth and rufous. 2 
* Melcha, Cam. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. IX, 153, 
R. A. Soc., No. 39, 1903. 
