HYMENOPTERA OF SARAWAK. 167 



hyaline, the stigma pale testaceous, the costa and nervures 

 darker. $ . 



Length 7 mm. 



. Hab. Bidi. December. 



Front, vertex and face closely minutely, irregularly reticu- 

 lated, more closely in the centre than on the sides ; the occiput 

 sharply margined. Mesonotum closely punctured, almost reti- 

 culated ; the centre^ with an impressed line. Metanotal area 

 stoutly irregularly longitudinally striated and without an apical 

 bounding keel ; the apical slope with 2 or 3 irregular longi- 

 tudinal keels. Pleurae alutaceous ; the meso- with an oblique 

 keel down the middle, behind which it is closely striated; near the 

 apex of the meta- are 2 curved keels, the space between them 

 being striated. The hair on the tarsi is more rufous than on 

 the rest of the legs ; the apical 4 joints of the fore tarsi rufous. 

 First and second transverse cubital nervures straight and 

 parallel, the cell being of equal width throughout and distinctly 

 shorter, above, than the following ; the recurrent nervure is re- 

 ceived shortly beyond the middle ; this being also the case with 

 the 2nd the 1st is straight and oblique, the 2nd roundly curved. 



Is not unlike N. bicaniculata, Cam., that species is readily 

 separated by the different form of the median segment which is 

 much larger and with the apical slope stoutly keeled round the 

 top. 



Nomia erythropocla, sp. nov. 



Black ; the 1st abdominal segment with a piceous band on 

 the apex, the others banded with blue, variegated with orange; 

 the antennal scape, apex of clypeus, labrum and legs ferrugin- 

 ous-red ; the hair on the head, thorax, base^tf abdomen and legs 

 pale fulvous ; wings hyaline, the radial and cubital cells smoky, 

 the stigma and nervures black. 5 . 



Length 9-10 mm. 



Hab. Kinghang. January. 



Lower part of front and face keeled in the centre, the 

 former more strongly than the latter ; the clypeus distinctly 



R. A. Soc, No. ii, 1905, 



