88 HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 



furrowed down the centre. Eyes distinctly converging- above ; 

 at the top separated from each other by the length of the fourth 

 antennal joint; the hinder ocelli are separated from each other 

 by a less distance than they are from the eyes. Thorax velvety 

 black, sparsely covered with long black hair ; the scutellum not 

 projecting much over the mesonotum ; the post-scutellum has a 

 lower elevation than it ; its apical two-thirds have an oblique, 

 straight slope ; its centre is keeled. Median segment obscurely 

 transversely striated. The dark part of the wings extends 

 close to the fit st transverse cubital nervure and on the lower 

 edge near to the apex ; the base of the cubital cellule is blackish 

 also ; the second cubital cellule is distinctly shorter th*jn the 

 tl.ird above and below ; the third transverse cubital nervi.re is 

 obliquely narrowed towards the second on the upper half; the 

 accessory nervure in the hind wings is instertitial. Legs black ; 

 the calcaria and spines b'ack ; the tooth on the base of the 

 claws short and bluntly pointed. Abdomen black, with a dis- 

 tinct plumbeous-sericeous tinge ; the anal segment thickly 

 covered with long black hairs. 



Macromeris au.eojrilosa, sp. nov. 



Nigra, antennis subtus brunneis ; capite thoraceque dense 

 aureopilosis ; alis flavo-hyalinis, apice fusco-violaceo, 9 • 



Long : 13 mm. 



Ilab. Borneo. 



Antenme slender, black above, brown below. Head 

 densely covered with depressed golden pubescence and more 

 sparsely with long silvery hair Apex of clypeus broadly 

 rounded; Mandibles black, broadly rufous near the middle ; 

 the base covered with silvery pubescence. Palpi testaceous. 

 Thorax densely covered with depressed golden pubescence; 

 the apex of the median segment transversely striated; the 

 pleural tubercle nipple-like. Wings yellowish-hyaline; the 

 apex from the second transverse cubital to the middle of the 

 second recurrent nervure bright fuscous- violaceous. Legs 

 long ; the fore knees and tibiae testaceous ; the tarsi are 

 minutely spined ; the hind spurs are not much more than one 

 fourth of the length of the metatarsus. 



Allied to M. eastanea (Bingh.) 



