HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK., LoS 
and strongly punctured ;. the abdomen shining, finely punctured 
oi the base of the segments; the hair fringe black; it has a 
violaceous tint in certain lights; the wings uniformly fuscous- 
violaceous. Q. 
Length 15 mm. 
Hab. Matang, 3600 feet. 
Characteristic of this species is the large head, largely 
developed behind the eyes and as wide as the thorax. Antenne 
short, thick and bare. Mandibles almost impunctate, fringed 
below with long rufous hair. The centre of the prothorax is 
~ smooth and shining; the sides strongly and closely punctured. 
There is a distinct, deep longitudinal furrow on the sides of the 
mesonotum, which is strongly, but not closely, punctured and 
has two smooth longitudinal bands near the centre. Scutellum 
with a band of large punctures round the edges and witha 
curved row in the middle. Post-scutellum strongly punctured, 
most sparsely in the centre. The apical slope of the median 
segment is impunctate. The raised middle part of the meso- 
pleurz is strongly punctured ; the upper and apical parts of the 
metopleure sparsely and not very strongly punctured. Pygidium 
covered thickly with long black hair. 
Comes near 7. Kollari, Sauss., and 7’. macrocephala, Grib. 
Agenia acilla, sp. nov. 
Black, shining, smooth, covered with a silvery pile; the 
wings hyaline ; a narrow cloud along the transverse basal and 
the transverse median nervure (the larger part of it on their 
outer side) and a wider cloud extending from the base of the 
stigma to shortly beyond the middle of the 2nd cubital cellule 
and backwards extending to the discoidal nervure. °. 
Length 9 to 10 mm. 
Hab. Kuching. . 
Head opaque, alutaceous, the apex of the clypeus smooth 
and shining. Mandibles rafous behind the apex. Palpi black, 
the apical. joints fuscous; the hair bundle long and _ black. 
Hinder ocelli separated by a slightly less distance from each 
other than they are from the apex. The scutellum and post 
scutellum shining. The apical half of the median segment is. 
R. A. Soc., No. 39, 1903. 
