118 HYMENOPTERA OF SARAWAK. 



band near the apex of the 2nd and following segments, 

 the lines dilated and turned backwards below alone: the sides, 

 yellow. Legs yellowish, the fore femora above, the middle at 

 the base below and more broadly above, the hinder, except at 

 the apex, the base of the hind tibiae, and the 4 hind tarsi, black. 

 Wings hyaline, the apex from the transverse cubital to shortly 

 beyond the apex of the cubitus fuscous-violaceous ; the stigma 

 testaceous, the nervures black. 2 . 



Length 18 mm.; terebra 33 mm. 

 Kuching. October. 



Apex of clypeus roundly incised. Scutellum transversely 

 punctured; its black apex longitudinally, coarsely striated. 

 Median segment closely punctured ; the metanotum with a 

 smooth furrow down its centre. Propleurse almost smooth, the 

 meso- closely punctured. Abdomen smooth ; the black on the 

 middle segments has a brownish tinge. 



Epirhyssa maculiceps, sp. nov. 



Black, the face, except for an irregular bell-shaped mark 

 in the centre, a mark on the front, longer than wide, clypeus, 

 labrum, inner orbits to the hind ocelli, the outer from near the 

 top, malar space, pronotum, 2 curved marks, narrowed at the 

 apex, on the middle lobe of the mesonotum at the base, a broad 

 line on the inner side of the lateral lobes, one along their outer 

 edge, scutellum, except at the apex, its keels, the depressions 

 at the sides of the post-scutellum, the lower edge of the 

 propleurye, mesopleurse, except in the middle at the apex, median 

 segment, except for a large conical mark on the apical two- 

 thirds of the metanotum and the apices of the abdominal seg- 

 ments, broadly yollow. Legs yellow, the tibiae and femora 

 suffused with fulvous; the inner and lower side of the hind 

 coxae black ; the hind tibiae in front, except in the middle, their 

 ap^x all round and the hinder tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline, 

 clouded at the apex from the transverse cubital nervure ; stigma 

 fuscous, the nervures blackish. 2 . 



Length 12 ; terebra 13 mm. 



Hab. Kuching. March. 



Jour. Straits Brauch 



