HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWARK. me) et 
area on the metanotum closely longitudinally striated; the 
wings dark violaceous, darker at the apex; the tegule ru- 
fous. 2. 
Length 12 mm. 
Hab. Kuching. 
Clypeus and face strongly, but not closely, punctured, the 
clypeus slightly depressed in the centre and with a thin ir- 
regular keel down the centre; the face convex in the centre; 
the front and vertex are strongly and closely punctured, except 
at the ocelli; they are, as are also the outer orbits, thickly cover- 
ed with long soft hair. Mesonotum closely, strongly and uni- 
formly punctured; the scutellum is more strongly, but not so 
closely, punctured as is also the metanotum, except for a tri- 
angular smooth space near the top and a line down the centre; 
the furrow on its top is long, narrow and is closely, stoutly longi- 
tudinally striated. Propleuree smootn, above thickly covered 
with white hair; the meso- closely and uniformly punctured and 
covered sparsely with short white hair ; the meta- thickly cover- 
ed with long white hair. Abdomen shining above, the seements, 
except at the apex, closely, minutely punctured. Ventral seg- 
ments fringed with white hair. Legs thickly covered with long, 
soft white hair. The wings are paler in the middle and darker 
at the apex than at the base. 
The basal slope of the 1st abdominal segment is thickly 
covered with long white hair; the apices of the segments are 
glabrous; the apex of the clypeus is transverse ; the median seg- 
ment has a vertical slope; the scutellum and post-scutellum are 
sparsely covered with long black hair; the median segment has a 
vertical slope; the hinder tibiz and tarsi are not densely pubes- 
cent on the inner side and have a castaneous hue; the under side 
of the flagellum is fuscous. 
Comes near to NV. fuscipennis, Sm. 
Nomia bicarmata, sp. nov. 
Black; covered with pale pubescence; the head and thorax 
closely punctured ; the apical half of the median segment deeply 
‘furrowed; the sides from shortly above the middle keeled; the 
apices of the abdominal segments covered with depressed white 
pubescence; the wings hyaline; the stigma fuscous. 9. 
R. A. Soc., No. 39, 1903. 
