SO HYMEN OPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 



ters and femora, except at the apex, rufous; they are covered 

 with longish white hair ; the spines on the four front tibiae are 

 rufous, on the posterior black ; on the tarsi they are rufous, and 

 their basal joints are thickly covered with rufous, stiff pubes- 

 cence. The basal segment of the abdomen is short and is much 

 narrower than the second ; underneath it is rufous, smooth 

 below ; the base of the keel obtusely dentate. On the base of 

 the second segment are two irregular, broader than long, marks 

 of silvery pubescence ; the third segment is almost entirely 

 covered with silvery pubescence ; the pygidium is smooth and is 

 fringed laterally with long silvery pubescence ; the ventral, seg- 

 ments are thickly covered with silvery hair. 



Mutilla palaea, sp. nov. 



Antennae and head black ; the thorax red ; the abdomen blue, 

 thickly covered with long white hair, without any bands of 

 depressed pubescence; wings uniformly fuscous, with a slight 

 violaceous tinge ; the third transverse cubital completely, and 

 the second recurrent nervure almost completely obliterated £ . 



Long : 9 mm. 



Hab. Kuching, Sarawak. 



Antennae stout, black, covered with a pale pile ; the third 

 joint is slightly, but distinctly, shorter in length than the fourth. 

 Head black, nearly as wide as the thorax ; behind transverse, 

 the edge of the occiput sharp and slightly raised above. Front 

 and vertex shining closely punctured all over and coverel with 

 longish white hair. Clypeus largely depressed in the centre ; 

 the depression largest below, narrowed above ; the apex raised 

 and closely punctured. Mandibles bidentate ; the apical tooth 

 long and curved at the apex. Thorax entirely rufous, thickly 

 pilose ; the hair on the mesonotum fulvous, on the median seg- 

 ment longer and white. Pro- and mesonotum, with the scutel- 

 lum closely rugosely punctured ; the post-scutellum is bordered 

 laterally by a keel and there is a short, less distinct, keel in the 

 centre. Median segment reticulated ; the central basal one is 

 very broad at the base, the apex much narrowed ; the area? 

 surrounding it are large. The upper part of the propleurae is 

 irregularly, indistinctly, punctured ; at the apex is an elongated 

 area, rounded below, which reaches to shortly below the middle. 



