156 HYMENOPTERA OF SARAWAK. 



than wide, on the mesonotum, the scutellums, 2 marks, narrowed 

 below on the middle of ihe metanotum, the narrowed basal part 

 of the petiole and the apices of all the abdominal segments, pale 

 yellow. Four front legs with a fulvous tinge, the hind coxae 

 black, yellow above, apical joint of trochanters black below, 

 the femora rufous, the tibiae and tarsi yellow, the former black 

 at the base and apex. Wings clear hyaline, the nervures and 

 stigma black. First segment of abdomen smooth and shining ; 

 the 2nd and 3rd closely punctured ; gastracoeli large, wide, their 

 middle with a few irregular stria? ; the space between shining, 

 aciculated, finely, irregularly striated. Hinder tarsi with the 

 basal 2 joints together longer than the tibiae. 



Facydes striolata, sp. nov. 



Rufo-luteous ; a larsre mark on the face, becoming gra- 

 dually wider below, the clypeus except narrowly at the apex, 

 the base of the 2nd abdominal segment in the centre and in 

 front of the gastrocoeli, the base of the 3rd and 4th and the 5th 

 and following segments entirely, black ; the legs similarly 

 coloured, the apex of the hind femora, almost the apical half 

 of the tibiae and the tarsi entirely, black. Wings yellowish- 

 hyaline, the apex from the end of the areolet fuscous-violaceous, 

 the stigma luteous, the nervures darker coloured. Antennas 

 black, the thickened apical part fuscous. 9 • 



Length 16 mm. 



Hab. Penrisen, 4500 feet. May. 



Face and clypeus closely punctured, the sides of the former 

 broadly, of the latter narrowly, pale yellow ; the front and 

 vertex smooth ; the ocellar region and the occiput broadly, 

 black. Thorax closel} and clearly punctured ; the mesonotum 

 darker coloured and thickly covered with fuscous pubescence ; 

 the scutellum closely covered with longer, darker hair. Apical 

 slope of metanotum irregularly, coarsely transversely striated ; 

 the top of the posterior median area longitudinally striated ; 

 its bordering keel smooth and shining. Upper part of pro- 

 pleune closely punctured ; the meso- less closely, the middle be- 

 hind almost smooth ; the meta- closelv and distinctly punctured. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



