HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 69 



[/ Maraces Jluvo-baltemia, sp. nov. 



Niger, late flavo-maculato ; pedibus flavis, coxis trochanteribus 

 femoribusque posticis nigris ; apice tibiarum posticarum late 

 nigro ; alis hyalinis, nervis stigmatique nigris 9 • 



Long: 14 mm. 2 



Hab. Sarawak, Borneo (Shelford). 



Antennae black, the middle of the flagellum broadly banded 

 with white. Head black ; the face, except for a broad black 

 line in the middle, the clypeus, the inner orbits narrowly to the 

 top of the eyes on the inner side, and the outer, entirely below 

 and broadly above, pale yellow. The face closely, the clypeus 

 sparsely, punctured. Mandibles black. Front and vertex 

 impunctate, bare, shining. Thorax black; the edge of the' 

 pronotum, two marks on the mesonotum, obliquely and sharply 

 narrowed at the base, the apex of the scutellum broadly, the 

 mark narrowed behind the apical part of the scutellar keels, the 

 post-scutellum, two marks on the apex of the median segment, 

 narrowed below as they follow the outline of the lateral area?, 

 the lower part of the propleurae, of the mesopleurae more broadly, 

 the tubercles, the hinder edge of the mesopleurae, and the apical 

 half of the metapleurae, yellow. Mesonotum closely rugosely 

 punctured, reticulated in the middle behind ; the scutellum is 

 similarly punctured. The base of the median segment is smooth ; 

 the areola is coarsely sharpened ; the posterior area coarsely 

 irregularly reticulated ; the lateral area smooth at the base, the 

 rest coarsely punctured ; the spiracular area rugose, the apex 

 transversely, coarsely striated. The upper part of the propleurae 

 is closely punctured, the apex stoutly striated, the striae in the 

 centre extending to the centre. Meso- and metapleurae distinct- 

 ly and closely punctured ; the middle of the former finely and 

 closely longitudinally striated. Wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma black. The four front legs yellow ; the femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi black behind ; the hinder coxae, except at the 

 apex on the inner side, the basal joint of the trochanters, the 

 femora and the apical third of the tibiae, black ; the rest yellow. 

 Abdomen black ; the base of the petiole broadly, its apex and 

 the apex of all the other segments, yellow ; the middle segments 

 of the abdomen are closely punctured ; the gastrocoeli are 



