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tending- on to the hinder edge of the eyes, a broad line on the 

 pronotum, one on the basal half of the middle lobe of the meso- 

 notum, 2 shorter ones on its apex on the lateral lobes, scutellums, 

 the apex of the median segments, the mark roundly dilated back- 

 wards in the middle, the lower edge of the propleurae, an irreg- 

 ular mark under the hind wings and a large mark an the lower 

 apical half of the metapleurae, bright yellow. Legs rufous, the 

 anterior paler ; the 4 front coxae and trochanters yellow ; the 

 hinder coxae black, with a large yellow mark on the apex above ; 

 the apex of the hinder tibiae black ; the hinder tarsi inf uscated. 

 Wings hyaline, a small fuscous cloud near the centre of the 

 radius and cubitus, the stigma and nervures black. 9 . 



Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Kuching. 



Antennae slender, longer than the body, fuscous ; the scape 

 obscure yellow beneath. Face and clypeus closely, transversely 

 punctured ; the front and vertex closely obliquely striated ; the 

 front with 2 stouter longitudinal keels down the centre. Meso- 

 and metanotum closely, finely transversely striated. Upper part 

 of propleurae closely obliquely striated, the lower smooth, the 

 upper part of meso- closely longitudinally striated, the lower 

 closely rugose ; upper half of meta- coarsely obliquely striated, 

 the lower distinctly punctured. 



PlMPLINA. 



Epirhyssa spiloptera, sp. nov. 



Black, the face, clypeus, inner orbits to the top, the outer 

 more broadly (but narrowly above) from near the top, malar 

 space, the upper side, apex, lower side, except in the middle of 

 the prothorax, scutellum, except at the apex, post-scutellum, 

 the median segment except at the base, apex and lower 

 side of pleurae, the meso-, except at the base, below the tuber- 

 cles and a large curved mark, with a narrow oblique pedicle 

 below the latter, mesosternum, a longish mark, becoming 

 gradually wider towards the apex, which is transverse on the 

 1st, a somewhat similar mark on the 2nd, but with its apex trans- 

 verse, not rounded and with the sides at the apex projecting ; a 



B, A. Soc„ No, 44, 1905. 



