72 HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK 



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Zonojoppa vioiaceipenms, sp. nov 



Nigra, capite thoraceque fiavo maculatis ; abdominis basi late 

 rufo ; pedibus nigris; coxis trochanteribusque anterioribus flavis, 

 alis violaciis, nervis stigmatique nigris 9 . 

 Long. 15 mm. 

 Hab. Sarawak (Shelford). 



Antennae black, the scape yellow beneath. Head black ; the 

 face, clypeus, base of mandibles, the inner orbits to shortly beyond 

 the ocelli, the outer more broadly from near the top, the line be- 

 coming gradually wider from top to bottom, pale yellow. 

 Front and vertex smooth, bare and shining ; the black on them 

 has a plumbeous hue, and they are sparsely covered with pale 

 hair. Thorax black ; the upper edge of the pronotum from near 

 the base (the yellow with a black band in the middle), the keels 

 of the scutellum from near the base, the apex of thepost-scutel- 

 lum ; the base of the prothorax from the keel on the pleura?, the 

 tubercles and a large mark on the lower part of the mesopleura? at 

 the base, yellow. Mesonotum in the middle stoutly punctured ; 

 the punctured space prolonged laterally at the base ; the sides near 

 the tegula? are deeply furrowed. The scutellum, except at the 

 base, is irregularly and rather strongly punctured ; the sides are 

 stoutly keeled ; in the centre of the post scutellum are four 

 stout keels. The central basal depression of the median 

 segment is smooth ; the sides are strongly punctured ; the 

 areola has a large, round depression at the base, which extends 

 to shortly beyond the middle ; the apical central area is smooth 

 and depressed at the base ; the rest of it stoutly transversely 

 striated ; the lateral stoutly, irregularly striated, almost reticu- 

 lated ; the spiracular, beyond the spiracles, irregularly obliquely 

 striated. The lower part of the propleura? is aciculated and 

 irregularly striated ; the meso-, except behind, finely and closely 

 punctured ; the meta- closely and coarsely striated; the meso- and 

 metapleura? are thickly covered with white hair. The four anter- 

 ior coxa? entirely, the trochanters, the femora, except at the base, 

 and the tibia? and tarsi in front, pale yellow, black behind; the legs 

 black ; the coxa? above, except at the base, the apical half of the 

 trochanters, a line on the femora above and on the base of the 

 femora, pale yellow; all the legs are thickly covered with pale 



