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ringed with white ; the pedicle is minute, narrowed ; the .°>rd 

 joint is distinctly longer than the 4th. 



AC CLE AT A. 

 Taclujtes varipilosa, sp. nov. 



Black, the pubescence on the head pale golden, on the 

 thorax pale fulvous, on the abdomen silvery ; wings yellowish- 

 hyaline, the nervures and stigma testaceous. 9 • 



Length 13 mm. 



Hab. Kuching. 



Front, face and clypeus densely covered with golde:i pubes- 

 cence ; vertex finely rugose, obscurely furrowed down the 

 centre ; eyes at the top separated by fully twice the length of 

 the 2nd antennal joint. Thorax alutaceous ; the median seg- 

 ment thickly covered with long pale pubescence ; the fovea on 

 the apex of the basal slope pyriform ; the apical slope with 

 curved, line stride ; the base is not furrowed ; tarsal and tibial 

 spines rufous ; costa and stigma dark, the other nervures pale 

 testaceous ; teguhe testaceous, 1st transverse cubital nervure 

 with 3 curves. 



Comes near to T. aurifex, Sm. ; that species is larger, has 

 the scape of antennae rufous, the apex of clypeus rounded in 

 the centre, and otherwise, may easily be separated by the eyes 

 converging more above, they being there separated by dis- 

 tinctly less than the length of the 5th antennal joint. 



Tachytes aureocincta, sp. nov. 



Black ; the hair on the head and thorax fulvous ; the abdo- 

 minal segments banded with golden pubescence ; the pygidium 

 with silvery pile and, more sparsely, with long fulvous hair: 

 wings hyaline, suffused with yellow at the base : the tibise and 

 tarsi and apex of hinder femora rufo- testaceous. l . 



Length 14-15 mm. 



flab. Matang. 



Clypeus smooth and shining ; the centre depressed, trans- 

 verse ; front with, narrow, but distinct, furrow in the centre, 



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



