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the tibiae; the anterior are longer. The antennae are stout and 

 taper towards the apex. 



Characteristic of this genus is the obliquely depressed semi- 

 circularly emarginate apex of clypeus. It comes near to Enjthro- 

 pinrpla, Ashmead. 



Charitopimplajlavo-baUeata, sp. no v. 



Nigra, abdomine fiavo-baltealo ; pedibus flavis; posticis 

 nigro alboque maculatis; alis hyalinis, stigmate testaceo, nervis 

 nigris 2 . 



Long : 13; terebra 7 mm. 



Hab. Sarawak, Borneo (Shelford). 



Antennae about two thirds of the length of the body; black, 

 distinctly tapering towards the apex ; the scape yellow beneath. 

 The face and clypeus are shining, have a plumbeous hue and 

 are uniformly but not strongly punctured ; the face is covered 

 sparsely with white, the clypeus with dark hair; the front and 

 vertex are bare, smooth and shining, ^landibles black; the 

 palpi lemon-yellow. Pro- and mesothorax smooth and shining, 

 covered closely with short fuscous hair; the scutellum bears 

 longer and paler hair ; the median segment is, especially towards 

 the apex, thickly covered with long white hair. The lower 

 part of the metapleurae is smooth and bare. The four front 

 legs are yellow, with the femora suffused with fulvous; the 

 hinder legs white ; black are the coxae, except above the base 

 and apex of the femora, a ring near the base of the tibiae, a 

 broader band on their apex and the apical joints of the tarsi ; the 

 femora have the sides and lower surface rufous; the coxae 

 are bright yellow above. Wings hyaline, with a slight fulvous 

 tinge. Abdomen black ; the apices of the basal five segments 

 bright lemon-yellow ; the sixth is yellow on the sides ; the 

 seventh broadly in the middle above ; the segments are closely 

 punctured; the petiole has the middle smooth and slightly de- 

 pressed; the apical two segments are impunctate, the transverse 

 depressions are shallow except on the fifth where they are 

 wider and deeper and the basal one is striated. 



