HYMENOPTERA OF SARAWAK. Ill 



Enagathis creophora, sp. nov. 



Black, the head, the fore legs, pro- and mesothorax red ; 

 the wings dark fuscous, the stigma and nervures black ; the 

 metapleurae thickly covered with white pubescence. 9 . 



Length 10, terebra 1 mm. 

 Hab. Kuching. 



Scape of antennae obscure reddish below. Head smooth 

 and shining, the face and clypeus thickly covered with fuscous 

 pubescence. Middle lobe of mesonotum distinctly raised, but 

 not separated by furrows from the lateral. Scutellum with a 

 distinct, raised margin, which is highest at the apex ; the keels 

 are bordered, on the inner side by a furrow, which, at the apex, 

 has a few indistinct keels. Post-scutellum opaque, strongly 

 aciculated, flat, transverse at the base, roundly narrowed to- 

 wards the apex. On the base of the metanotum is a curved 

 obliquely depressed rounded area, with its middle triangularly 

 bent inwardly ; next to this are 7 areee, all longer than wide, 

 the central of equal width and twice longer than wide ; the 

 outer still longer, the apical slope is oblique, surrounded by a 

 stout keel ; in its centre is an area which becomes slightly 

 narrowed towards the apex ; at the sides is an area of equal 

 width throughout; on either side of the central area is a keel 

 which only extends to the middle. Pro- and mesopleuree 

 smooth ; on the centre of the meso- on the lower half is an 

 oblique row of long, stout keels ; the apical furrow is crenulat- 

 ed ; on the base of the metapleurse are 3 stout keels. Tarsi 

 thickly covered with short stiff hair. The 1st transverse 

 cubital nervure is straight and sharply oblique ; the 2nd is 

 much shorter, not oblique, roundly curved ; the recurrent 

 nervure is bullated near the top. 



This may be E. pilosus Sz^p. ; but the 25 words of that 

 author's description, dealing mainly with the colour, are not 

 sufficient for identification. In my species the 4 front claws 

 are bifid ; the hinder subbifid, the basal claw being short. 

 There is no branch on the 2nd transverse cubital nervure, but 

 it is thickened in the middle. 



R. A. Soc. No. 44, 1905. 



